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Leadership in Health and Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leadership in Health and Social Care

...studied in the course and help you to explore how they might play out in real-life situations. This material forms part of The Open University course K313 Leadership and management in health and social care... Meet the leaders Leadership, are you worth it? From hospital ward to CEO’s office six leaders responsible for delivering vital health and social care services...
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Audio 32 mins
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...study the principles of hypothesis testing, including the specification of significance levels, as well as one-sided and two-sided tests. Finally, you will learn how to perform a hypothesis test of the mean of a variable, as well as the proportion of individuals in a dataset with a certain characteristic. You will use spreadsheets throughout the course as the central tool...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...skills that you need to develop to become more effective in this role. Then you’ll be asked to watch a series of video clips showing facilitation in action. You’ll meet Alan as he tries to facilitate a meeting of an established group – a chaotic meeting. Next you will listen to a dialogue between Alan and a more experienced facilitator, Lisa, to see how she handled...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...represent and interpret information. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Computing & IT...Presenting information: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: use the Windows calculator to carry out basic operations and calculate percentages interpret and use information presented in tables and charts round numbers appropriately...Presenting information: 1.1.1......
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...studying this course you should be able to: understand the broad scope of design engineering recognise the main drivers for design engineering describe how human variation impacts on design engineering apply some basic concepts and methods from design engineering to explore creative solutions to clearly defined real world problems demonstrate skills in communication,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...studying this course, you should be able to: explain the differences between various types of intellectual property and the legal frameworks that apply to each type understand the issues that arise when drawing up contracts relating to acquiring or developing software explore the legal frameworks relating to software systems in a specific context...Software and the law: 1...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Understanding Classical terms
History & The Arts

Understanding Classical terms

...studying the Classical world feel more ‘at home’ with references to dates, names, places and terms. If you’re familiar with these aspects, use the menu below to take a look at the intermediate level articles exploring ‘The Histories’ in more detail. [Image taken from page 387 of 'Herodotus: the text of Canon Rawlinson's translation, 1897] Image taken from page...
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Activity 5 mins
How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...study of tree ring growth. Here she gives Ever Wondered her expert perspective on what tree rings can tell us about ourselves...[A dead tree on the coast] "Time flashes by. We are here for just a moment and then we’re part of history. My lifetime probably won’t last beyond 100 years if I’m lucky. But did you know that something we see nearly every day will far out...
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Article 10 mins