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Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...work exploring health and social care services, identified three different components in leadership: the person, the position and the process. Rogers and Reynolds (2003) subsequently added a fourth P to this list – purpose. Rather than focusing only on the characteristics, behaviours and skills of leaders as people and the role individuals play in shaping events, these...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...work, social or family life? Have those changes improved your life? Have they created any problems? Comment The biggest change for me has been in my ability to work from home. I’m currently sitting at home typing this text on a computer whilst listening to some jazz music, which is also stored on the computer. I’ll shortly email my document to a colleague, who will be...
Online training support for businesses
Money & Business

Online training support for businesses

...social learning platform offering free flexible, distance learning content to support upskilling in industry. This new, innovative business learning hub enhances learning and development opportunities for SMEs across Northern Ireland by giving access to best practice learning on entrepreneurial leadership across three core themes: Leadership and management;
Origins of The Cold War
History & The Arts

Origins of The Cold War

...politics of blame during The Cold War Has there been too much emphasis on the superpowers? Western European integration How did all the stakeholders reconcile their competing agenda’s? Domestic concerns vs Foreign policy How did domestic issues help to shape the cold war? The Cold War on a local level The impact of the Cold War from a social and cultural perspective....
Ethics in real life
History & The Arts

Ethics in real life

...with The Open University's Derek Matravers. Plagiarism and copyright law Nigel Warburton explores with the author, Maureen Duffy, the ethics of plagiarism and copyright law. Business ethics Derek Matravers talks to The Open University's Anya Shaefer about business ethics, comparing the profit maximisation view of business with the corporate social responsibility model....
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...social conflicts to which it gives rise. The course is designed to hone your skills of textual analysis...This free course, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, concentrates on Acts 1 and 2 of John Webster's Renaissance tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi. It focuses on the representation of marriage for love and the social conflicts to which it gives rise. The course is...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...working on films about badger culling, climate change and salmon farming with the BBC’s Natural History Unit. He was a key member of the team that made the anthropological series Tribe, and worked on the BAFTA-winning Amazon with Bruce Parry and the follow-up series Arctic with Bruce Parry. He has made TV series about conservation in the Congo Basin, climate change in...
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...work to develop our understanding of the past. You will learn about three aspects of the historian’s craft through three topic areas: landscapes, infant health and criminal justice. Through the activities in the course, you will experience a wide range of historical evidence and understand its importance for historians in constructing new knowledge...What do historians...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs