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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our optional end-of-course survey 70. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others. ...Week 1: Powers and scientific notation: Introduction - This first week of the course covers two areas that will give you a firm foundation to build on for the next seven weeks. To start...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...LA-ICP-MS) and the ion microprobe (IMP). The electron microprobe technique involves directing a focused electron beam at a polished surface of a mineral grain. X-rays that are specific for each constituent element are emitted from the mineral. By measuring the intensity of the X-rays that characterise different elements, the major and minor element composition of 'spots'...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...class Indian households living in air-conditioned apartments and owning a television, refrigerator and motor scooter, or perhaps a car (Figure 11(a)), and the household of a subsistence farmer, whose only fuel is dried cow dung for cooking, and perhaps kerosene for a lamp (Figure 11(b)) in Africa, the contrast between the elite, who may have a private swimming pool, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...feedback and suggestions to improve the course. This course is endorsed by the CPD Standards Office . It can be used to provide evidence of continuing professional development but is not accredited learning. We are unable to provide formal learner verification services for participation in our open online courses, which are provided freely by The Open University as...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...feedback that comes into Whitbread. [ON SCREEN] Delivering on time and in full The biggest challenge is to make sure that you're delivering the product on time and in full. And that's, I suppose, what drives everything. The consequences of not doing that, clearly, are additional costs. What leads to that going wrong could be as elementary as getting the forecasting wrong,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...feedback and modelling, they learn how to put together phonemes, morphemes, words, and ultimately phrases together accurately. Halliday built his theory on the example of young children learning in informal contexts, so, as a way of beginning to encourage your skills in critical thinking, you may want to think about how learning in other contexts differs from this. For...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...feedback effects between downstream and upstream phases of the earlier linear models. The stages in the process are seen as separate but interactive. The management challenge of this process involves significant investment in cross-organisational communications and integration. (Dodgson et al., 2008, p.62) Figure 4 Third-generation innovation process (Source: Dodgson et...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...class’ (Rorty 1980, p. 1). It need not follow from this that we cannot make progress in answering the ‘What is..?’ question. First, there may be some very broad characteristics that all emotions share. For example, perhaps all emotions are psychological states or occurrences. This in itself does not tell us a great deal; but it does at least tell us something....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs