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Systems Practice case study - The CEO
Money & Business

Systems Practice case study - The CEO

...out, despite being excited by what we were doing. We also had ambitions to move into a new and important market sector and needed to build our capacity to do it. Initial recruitment issues It was a long time since we'd recruited Cliff and it had taken him a long time to settle in and start making a contribution. We had to do better this time but there were a lot of...
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Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...out between one pair of women friends: Woman 1: ‘What would you save from a fire?’ Woman 2: (holding a placard with the word ‘Animals’ written on it): laughs The most striking thing about this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene is the lack of irony, which several comments under a YouTube video of the advert point out. One comment reads, ‘The irony is strong in...
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What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...out and find, we sift through the thousands that are sent to us and of course we also manage the careers of writers throughout their life, but really, it’s half business and it’s half creative, editorial, psychological. PHILIP SEARGEANT: Could you say something about the criteria you look for in identifying new talents and possibly to what extent the market these days...
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Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...out and work together. That idea about change existed long before the Open University. But how was it transmitted? This banner, recently found in the village hall in Fringford, Oxfordshire, can be used to help us find out. This banner was made in the late nineteenth-century for a branch of a friendly society, a voluntary, mutual aid body. This one was called the...
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Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...out with students from an introductory online module offered by The Open University (OU). In this study, 551 students completed a questionnaire, 206 of these participants also described their views about online learning and fun. Participants were from a nine-month-module, which has twenty-four weekly units and four assessment activities. Data was generated in the last...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...out of the post-war years when stuff was just indiscriminately dumped in ponds and silos and so on, and it’s a massive job to try and clear that up. We need to focus our attention as I believe we are beginning to do, on the Sellafield problem. There are problems no doubt, and such things as mismanagement and all the rest of it. On the whole caring for and tending the...
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Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the use of objects and museum activities can enhance pupil learning identify museum resources and support available to teachers, and understand the ways of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Democracy? You think you know?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: consider the value of democracy, through examples challenge perceived wisdom about our political systems...Democracy? You think you know?: 1 Is democracy really such a good thing? -...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs