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Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...concepts helpful in developing a dialectical approach. Activity 7 Timing: (20 minutes) Read this extract from pages 95–6 of the ‘Technique Library’ (Martin et al., 2012) drawn from an OU MBA course on ‘Sustainable creative management’. DIALECTICAL APPROACHES These techniques use creative conflict within the decision-making process to help identify and challenge...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...concepts attempt to explain how relationships develop in childhood and how an understanding of theory and concepts can contribute to your practice...Developing and managing relationships: 1 The importance of the early years - You are going to start by exploring relationships in the early years through the lens of a case study family. The account pinpoints a number of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...concept of atmospheric temperature does not mean very much. The values describing the graph in Figure 1 vary a little around the Earth, but typically the sea-level mean (average) temperature is assumed to be 15 °C and the slope or gradient of the graph from zero to 11 km height in degrees per km change in height is −6.5 °C km −1. Above 11 km, the gradient is of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...concepts such as sympathy. The word itself derives from two roots. One is the ancient Greek word empatheia which means passion or physical affection (Jamieson, 2014). The second root is the German adaptation of the term—em (into) and pathos (feeling). This sense of feeling into someone else’s emotional state sets empathy apart from sympathy. To put it simply sympathy...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...de Siècle Magazines.” Science and Literature: The Great Divide?, special issue of MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, vol. 7, 2013, pp. 33–40. Tippett, Benjamin K., and David Tsang. “Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains In Spacetime.” arXiv preprint, 4 Nov. 2013, arxiv.org/abs/1310.7985. Willis, Martin. Literature and Science: Readers’ Guides to Essential...
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Article 10 mins
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...Concepts and Application, Devon Recovery Group. Available at: https://recoverydevon.co.uk/ wp-content/ uploads/ 2010/ 01/ Recovery_Concepts_Laurie_Davidson.pdf (Accessed: 24 October 2023). Mind (2014) We’ve Got Work To Do: Transforming Employment and Back-to-work Support for People with Mental Health Problems, London, Mind. Available at: https://www.mind.org.uk/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...concepts such as chance and probability. Working through the first self-assessment question (SAQ) will give you an indication of the skills and attitudes involved. If you find you are having a lot of difficulty with SAQ 1, put this course aside and select a more appropriate course from the topic list. SAQ 1 Define what you understand by a system. Describe why you are...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...concept’, according to Bass (1990, p. 11). This is particularly evident when you consider that, in 2020, a Google search suggested that there are over 47 million books and articles on leadership available worldwide. The American consultant Joe Iarocci (2015) estimated that there are on average four books a day being published with the words ‘leader’ or...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs