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...OU curriculum. Many are based on Open University course materials while others are written specifically for OpenLearn. All of our courses enable you to earn a Statement of participation and some also allow you to earn a free digital badge. You can use your badge or Statement of participation to share your achievement with others, although they do not carry any formal...
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Difference and challenge in teams
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Difference and challenge in teams

...become a part of the ‘social information’ held by others in the colony. These bees out-compete the directions given by other bees dancing less vigorously. Some more recent studies of bee behaviour suggest that ‘private information’ held by individual bees (e.g. the memory of where they found nectar on a previous foraging trip) is also at play. Guidance given by...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place
History & The Arts

Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place

...students by the US National Guard during a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. His activism has more recently led him to criticize US foreign policy during the Iraq War, off-shore fracking, and the use of GMOs by multinational corporations. Professor Halliwell continued: “Arguably, Neil Young has more contemporary relevance than Bob Dylan, who is back on the...
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The Death of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Death of Socrates

...student, Critias, who was considered to be among the worst of the tyrants and was thought to have been corrupted by Socrates. It has also been suggested, based in part on interpretations of Plato's dialogue of the Meno, that Anytus blamed Socrates for corrupting his son. Anytus, it seems, had been grooming his son for a life in politics until the boy became interested in...
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How to use a musical score
History & The Arts

How to use a musical score

...student at the Royal Northern College of Music and will be performing in the Leeds International Piano Competition. How does a pianist view a score? Pianist Alexander Panfilov explains how he works with the score to discover more about textures and structures of the piece as he prepares for his performance. Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 The final movement...
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Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...student, Natalie Andrew, in 2013. Natalie gathered the information for her analysis primarily from her work surroundings, but also used the internet to gather more information about her own and other companies in the same line of business. She wrote the report in response to this assignment question: Assignment question Write a report analysing your organisation in its...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
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Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...becomes more likely, and may arise from change of staff within the organisation, or even where the strategic priority attached to a project changes so that the sponsor also changes...Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO): 1.3 Communication of governance arrangements - Four principles of effective project governance are given in the book Project...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...becomes law...This free course, The law-making process in England and Wales, introduces you to the sources of law in England and Wales. It examines the democratic law-making process and how and by whom proposed legislation is initiated, before introducing you to the Westminster Parliament, which creates legislation. It is within this Parliament that proposed legislation...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs