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Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...physical capital, which includes environmental issues, attention to our precious, natural resources. So when we talk to companies, we want to make sure that their boards are paying attention to those global very important issues and that they are having oversight over those issues. So we ask boards and the companies that we meet with, for example, does your board have a...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...physical development is not at the right stage, and this activity is not offered till the age of three years, but she really enjoys dancing. After the nap, we don’t know what may happen today, but normally they have a snack, although today Giorgia has already had some milk so she might not want anything. Viola will have a snack and then we will engage in some play...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and revisited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes within the course – in order to do this, and to retrieve your responses, you will need to enrol on the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...physical trace of an actual event. However, as with all documentary evidence, their meaning is not fixed. Other examples of documents used by the social sciences can demonstrate this point. Documentary evidence can come from official records such as a marriage certificate, a census return, or a medical certificate. Such records may be ‘aggregated’ (added together) to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...physical document that participants sign, an electronic document which is emailed and which they sign electronically, or through an internet form, usually supplied as a link. For the Reproductive Bodylore project, we created several participant documents. Participant Materials include a ‘Friends & Family Information Sheet’ and a ‘Friends & Family Online Consent...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...physical changes that take place. Under the perception of a threat, our body releases hormones and glucose to help prepare the fight or flight response. While this is an adaptive response in the short term, it can drain our energy over time leading to a variety of health-related problems such as tension headaches and high blood pressure. Amongst the most cited causes of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...physical, emotional and social skills and so we might wonder how technology can support people in this – this is an important question to keep asking ourselves as we increasingly adopt technology in the home care environment. In the following activity, you will read a news article on how technology can change and improve social care. Activity 1 Weighing up the news The...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...physical or online bookshop reveals a vast array of fictional crime titles and authors, from Agatha Christie to Robert Galbraith to Jonathan Kellerman. In many bookshops you will also find a whole section dedicated to ‘true crime’ and books which claim to explore the ‘mind of the criminal’ or recount gruesome biographies of serial killers. If you google ‘crime...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs