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Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand that grammar can be seen as a flexible and useful tool for meaning making understand how grammar and vocabulary choices together create a range of different meanings see how an awareness of grammar as a tool for meaning-making can be applied to a range of real world situations in everyday...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: critically appreciate the significance of claims made for ‘global corporate citizenship’ understand the nature of work and ‘social citizenship’ recognise the difference between ‘acts citizenship’ and ‘status citizenship’ assess the ‘ethical dimension’ to arguments about citizenship...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...Learn more about these OpenLearn courses here...A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: consider the complexities involved in the study of religious change in the Sixties reflect on the possible different meanings of ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’, how this might relate...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the differences between colonisation, colonialism and coloniality recognise the role of religion and religious categories in the dehumanisation of colonised communities reflect on hierarchies of knowledge...Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance: 1...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...learning for all and this programme allows us in to a very busy, large and established NHS Trust in London which is akin to allowing us access into a world we haven’t really seen before - so that we can learn more about what it’s like to make these incredibly difficult decisions. We have many OU students working in health and social care as well as a large portfolio...
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Article 10 mins
Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...learning-by-doing. Finally, effectuators will seek to develop strategic alliances and to secure pre-commitments from key stakeholders such as suppliers and customers. Formation of such alliances and pre-commitments allows the entrepreneur to share the risk with these stakeholders, hence reducing possible losses to, or below, the level of affordable loss, and also allows...
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Article 5 mins
The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer
Money & Business

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

...learning should be considered. Notification to other interested parties of findings and learning is especially important when confronted with difficult and systemic issues Execution requires transparency, both internally and externally. The former requiring the mapping of supply chains, which in turn requires wider support. The vastness of the task and the finite...
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Article 5 mins
Kant on trust
History & The Arts

Kant on trust

...learn anything useful from anyone else; after all, they might not be telling us the truth. Nor could we cooperate with other people in joint ventures; after all, they might fail to honour their side of the deal. But in Kant’s theory, trust has a crucial role, too, in expressing our respect for ourselves and others. We treat people with respect when we refuse to lie to...
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Article 5 mins