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Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...technology to better effect making the service transaction more transparent keeping better records working demonstrably with standards, protocols or policies feeling professionally fulfilled in the work delivered. Is one or more of these important for notions of improvement in your healthcare setting? Make a note on why one or more of these might apply to your service...
Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...technology (not yet invented, however) and goodwill practices (to be?) encouraged. The other is for the UK itself to collect import tariffs on goods from non-EU countries on behalf of the EU and return appropriate sums to the EU where the commodities in question are designed ultimately for EU countries. Needless to say both “solutions” are seriously questioned by all...
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...educational systems Changing consumer needs and wants. Technological Speed and capacity of communication Moore’s Law (data capacity of computer chips doubles every 18 months) Increased consumer sophistication due to widespread use of computers and the internet New mobile and wireless communications applications Biological and genetic discoveries and applications....
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...technologies – as well as some of the tensions which modern life spawned. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A327 Europe 1914-1989: war, peace, modernity...Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand ‘modernisation’, ‘modernity’ and...
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...education, social advancement and entertainment, on what was known as the Grand Tour. A central objective was to gain exposure to the cultures of classical antiquity, particularly in Italy. In this free course, you’ll explore some of the different kinds of cultural encounters that fed into the Grand Tour, and will explore the role that they play in our study of Art...
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...education means that every child must receive quality instruction so that they're able to read, write, and count and develop their mental and physical abilities so they can reach their full potential as adults. The right to food means that every child must have enough healthy food so they have strong and healthy bodies. The right to health means that children must be...
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...educated, with athletes from private schools dominating in rowing and equestrian events (Vasagar, 2012). However, Activity 4 illustrates that research can only tell part of a story and that there will always be exceptions to statistics such as these. Many athletes come from backgrounds in which family resources are limited. This suggests that although environmental...
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...education, and there is lousy online distance education. What should our goal be as we all consider opening ourselves up in digital spaces? Quite simply, as it always should have been. It has to be about great teaching. But if those students have never known a world without digital being part of their life, then shame on us if we think we can sit still, put our head in...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs