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An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...change and improvement. The course considers some key issues and concepts in educational leadership and, among others, considers the question of what might constitute good practice in educational leadership and how the capacity to lead might be understood and developed. The importance of planning and evaluating professional learning development as part of this process is...
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...change as planned – because of failed IT systems. Many more examples, from the private, public and voluntary sectors, may come to your mind. But what exactly do we mean by success or failure in an IT system? This course mostly focuses on success, and helps you understand what we mean by a successful IT system. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...changed and revised along the way. It usually, but not exclusively, starts with a problem which raises questions that then might then be revised and refined, or even discarded. Any process of investigation is complex and any one stage might expose further questions and require further decisions to be made as it progresses. Each stage of the research depends on decisions...
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...change and summarise why that is. (For example, if you spend a lot of time being sedentary and sitting for long periods, why is it challenging to be more active?) Comment Instigating change in relation to some lifestyle factors is harder than others, particularly where we have less control over them. For many people, their job requires that they sit for long periods in...
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...change within an educational institution...Leadership for inclusion: what you can do?: 1 Who are leaders? - [speech bubble image with the text: ‘Do I have to be in charge?’] This course is premised on the view that if we want to achieve an inclusive school we cannot rely upon bureaucratic processes or the school leadership team or others in the system to deliver it....
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...changing environment...This free course, Cell signalling, explains the general principles of signal transduction and specifically, how even the simplest organisms can detect and respond to events in their ever-changing environment....Cell signalling: Introduction - Even the simplest organisms can detect and respond to events in their ever-changing environment. Similarly,...
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...change over time, and relate this to the flu viruses that occur in birds and other mammals explain how the epidemic pattern of influenza can be related to the evolution of new strains of virus and to the specificity of the immune response against each strain...Influenza: A case study: 1 Background to the case study - Influenza is a myxovirus belonging to the family of...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains

...change the patterns of the traffic flow. Once it changes then you’ve got all the traffic that’s backed up, and they come, a wave of them rush across the bridge, and whatever is in that line, that’s the load that you’re going to get at that time. And it was on both sides and it worked both ways. So as you can tell from our model that there were a great many coming...