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Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...work by looking at their internal functions (operations management, human relations, finance and marketing). You will also learn about the external environment for businesses and how the economic and political context helps shape how businesses respond to global challenges...Introduction to operations management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...working-class life (1957), a semiautobiographical examination of the cultural upheavals of the 1950s, Richard Hoggart recalled his upbringing in Leeds. “Every so often one heard that so-and-so had ‘done ’erself in’, or ‘done away with ’imself’, or ‘put ’er ’ead in the gas-oven’,” he wrote. “It did not happen monthly or even every season, and not...
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Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...work for many conservation groups like the Wildlife Trusts, RSPB and WWF supplying images and footage of fish. Based in Nottingham, he now works all over the country particularly the Peak District and Urban Rivers. Transcript Earth in Vision Project My name is Jack Perks and I’m an underwater and wildlife cameraman and photographer. How I got interested in the natural...
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Video 30 mins
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...working within the Welsh education system, but the messages about the principles of effective mentoring and coaching and the important role mentors have as teacher-educators within the school-based context remain the same across education systems. The course will aid your understanding of the role of a mentor supporting a beginner-teacher as they progress along a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...work of poetry published. Finally, her childhood reading reveals the paucity of previous women poets as role models. While 15 of the 50 books in the search results are by women, only one volume of poetry, her own long poem The Battle of Marathon (1820), is by a female author (UK RED: 16095). Her reading and response to Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...work of some famous illustrators for children understand how the use of images in children’s books has changed over time and what it means to create books for the specific audiences of children and their carers...Exploring books for children: words and pictures: 1 Words and pictures in children’s fiction through the ages - There is evidence that children were reading...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...work out how to deal with some of the associated challenges of caring for a family member with learning disabilities as they grow older. Based on case studies from our research, the course will do this by exploring planning for the future and some of the skills and resources that are useful to do this. Links to useful sources of information and organisations are provided...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
OpenLearn supports Get Online Week
Education & Development

OpenLearn supports Get Online Week

...working with Good Things Foundation, the charity behind Get Online Week, to deliver a collection of introductory-level, easy to access, free resources, perfect for those with limited online access. The subjects have been selected to support Get Online Week’s key themes for 2023, and all OpenLearn course materials can be downloaded and accessed offline, if online access...
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Article 5 mins