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Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...careful as these are artificial ideal types of constructs. In fact, all leadership models can be dismissed a little more than stereotypes. If questioned, most leaders would prefer to describe themselves as transformational and at times, they probably are. However, if we are to observe their day-to-day practices, we might well observe a transactional approach. Most leaders...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...Careful consideration should be given to the research methods deployed by existing researchers in the topic, but this should not stifle innovative approaches. Your literature study should also demonstrate the context of your own work, and how it relates, and builds, on the work of others; ‘to make proper acknowledgement of the work of previous authors and to delineate...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...adults under the age of 30) will have their operations performed using the drug. “I think lots of other people are trying to find out the difference between brain cancer and normal tissue, but they don’t know what to do with the information when they get it,” Olson says. “They publish their paper and then they move on to the next thing.” He hopes tumour paint...
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Article 5 mins
Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...adult mind. The most amusing instance of a false picture of something seen in childhood and continuing through life I have met was that of an Italian peasant I knew in South America. He liked to talk to me about the cranes, those great and wonderful birds he had become acquainted with in childhood in his home on the plains of Lombardy. The birds, of course, only appeared...
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Article 10 mins
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...adults who as children had lived through the worst period of Troubles-related violence (from 1970 to 1977) as the age group that experienced the most rapid rise in suicides in the decade after 1998. It seems obvious that this group, the middle-aged who’d seen the worst of the Troubles, would be affected. But what about teenagers, people like Jonny? We were the Ceasefire...
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Article 15 mins
Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...think it needs to be more discriminating and treat its audience sometimes as adults rather than just stupid fanatic. This audio is an extract from The Open University free taster course Contemporary Wales. If you want to study formally with us, you may wish to explore more courses we offer in this subject area. This material is also available in Welsh on OpenLearn Cymru....
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Audio 20 mins
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...care towards employees, customers, and the general public...In this free course, Software and the law, you'll look at the laws relevant to software and its use, taking a global perspective. A major part of this course is devoted to intellectual-property law, the issue of who owns software and digital content and how that ownership can be protected using instruments like...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...adult brain. Okay, the scan’s just about to start, so just keep nice and still there, okay? NARRATOR: Planning is done by taking a pilot scan. The patient is moved through the gantry. The source remains stationary on one side. This produces an image similar to a planar X-ray. This pilot scan is taken in what is called the sagittal plane. RADIOGRAPHER: We’re going to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs