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Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...writing, the tax position of Google in Ireland and the trading impacts of Brexit are yet to be fully established. Customer/consumer Some of the ethical issues in the previous section could impact on the willingness of customers to trade with an organisation. The sustainability of the market could impact on the sustainability of the supply chain; without demand for the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...write about their day-to-day work. This provides us with an idea of how the role is developing and also how it might possibly develop in the future. Doubtless, since The Open University first launched a specific advanced qualification for teaching assistants in 1995 (The Specialist Teacher Assistant Certificate), assistants have, increasingly, become involved in the work...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...writing (Animal Aid, 2019). Social harms also afflict other animals as unintended collateral damage. For instance, motorised transport brings about the killing and injuring of other animals (as well as human accident victims), often described as ‘road kill’ (Soron, 2011). There is not enough space in this course to fully document these harms, so the focus will be on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...writing a paper. So it’s actually transforming their understanding of glaciers. And similarly we actually filmed snow leopards extremely extensively on Planet Earth; it was one of our iconic images, and of course very few scientists ever get to see snow leopards in as much detail as we manage to cover them, and again, we’ve been able to give our rushes to behaviour...
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Video 30 mins
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...writing, which she’d like to pick up again, and inviting me to stay with her in Sicily. How could something as simple as staying awake overnight bring about such a transformation? Unpicking the mechanism isn’t straightforward: we still don’t fully understand the nature of depression or the function of sleep, both of which involve multiple areas of the brain. But...
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Article 15 mins
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...writing is from left to right, in horizontal lines. The alphabet was originally written on palm fronds. As a result, the letters are made up mainly of curved strokes which would not have ripped the fronds. Table 1 The 12 Tamil vowels அ a எ e ஆ aa ஏ ee இ i ஐ ai ஈ ii ஒ o உ u ஓ oo ஊ uu ஔ au Table 2 The 18 Tamil consonants, with the Grantha letters...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...write”, or create, charts came from middle school years. Somehow, we just “know” how to read most charts, or make sense of them, even if they are new to us, don’t we? For example, how would you read the chart shown below? [A bar chart showing comparison of world bank indicator values] This sort of chart is known as a bar chart. Each bar relates to a different...
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Video 45 mins
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...write some notes in the box below. If you have difficulty differentiating the different bars on the bar chart, please see the further description below. . Further description The figure comprises a set of statements numbered from 1 to 12. You are required to provide an answer for each statement for your view of both your ‘line manager’ and ‘senior management’ by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs