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Learning at Work Week: The OpenLearn Intrapreneurship Hub
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Learning at Work Week: The OpenLearn Intrapreneurship Hub

...resources. These include more than 900 courses, including 80 badged courses which count towards CPD hours. And it’s all available for free. Register below for exclusive Learning at Work Week content Complete the form below to receive access to our exclusive Intrapreneurship Hub and emails with the latest LAWW themed articles and links to our brand new content: Fields...
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The Open University Worldwide
OpenLearn Ireland

The Open University Worldwide

...resources such as an online virtual learning environment, videoconferencing, discussion forums, an online library and the Virtual Microscope. Teaching Quality at the Open University The Open University scores highly in student satisfaction surveys and is well respected by employers and professional bodies, thanks to rigorous quality control. OU Worldwide The Open...
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Audio 35 mins
Using and managing waste
Science, Maths & Technology

Using and managing waste

...resources and a growing population. This album considers the issues that are driving the waste management industry across the EU, looking in depth at processes of recycling, landfill, incineration, obtaining energy from waste, and composting. In the bonus audio tracks Professor Andrew Porteous of The Open University explains why the case studies were chosen, and Dr Suresh...
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Audio 1 hr 17 mins
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...resources. You will see that both of these dimensions of participation are important in social scientific accounts of participation. Some participation involves deliberate decisions to act together with others, such as when people march in a demonstration, vote in an election or join a group formed to pursue a shared purpose, such as protecting the environment. Other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...Human Kinetics, pp. 521–57. Faigenbaum, A. (2017) ‘Exercise prescription for muscular fitness’, in Howley, E. T. (ed.) Fitness professional’s handbook (7th edn). Leeds: Human Kinetics, pp. 257–89. Jeffreys, I. (2013) ‘The nature of speed’, in Jeffreys, I. (ed.) Developing speed. Leeds: Human Kinetics, pp. 1–18. Ľubos, G. et al. (2018) ‘Effect of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Classical studies: it's more than the words
History & The Arts

Classical studies: it's more than the words

...resources and exploring the map. [Fragment from Herodotus' Histories, Book VIII on Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 2099, dated to early 2nd century AD] Fragment from Herodotus' 'The Histories', Bk 8 on papyrus, early 2nd century AD How to read literature The very explicitness of literature – the fact that you can read it – can be deceptive. Let’s consider Homer, who chose to...
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30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...resource for SME academics, policy-makers and support providers. It has also established a community of UK-wide SME managers and owners, enabling them to highlight shared concerns.” Dr Richard Blundel, current editor of the Quarterly Survey, said: “It is difficult to overstate the sheer pace of change that SME managers and owners have experienced during the last three...
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Constitutional Conversations: what Good Friday Agreement was for women
Society, Politics & Law

Constitutional Conversations: what Good Friday Agreement was for women

...resources exploring what the Good Friday Agreement brought to our lives in the 25 years since its signing. Beginnings The people who decided what the Good Friday Agreement looked like could not have imagined that by the time of the twenty-fifth anniversary barely a day would pass without calls for a referendum on Irish unity. A key reason for the surge in support for a...
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