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Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...change depending on the circumstances. For example, performance can mean different things to different people. For one it may refer to a hard measure such as levels of sales. For another it may include good relationships with customers. According to this latter view, a researcher can only take a subjective perspective because the nature of these concepts is the result of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...change in the surrounding water. (Burning food is chemically similar to the ways in which our bodies break food down, despite being much faster and less controlled.) Versions of Andrews’s ‘bomb calorimeter’ are used to measure the calories in food today. At the Beltsville centre, samples of the meatloaf, mashed potatoes and tomato juice have been incinerated in the...
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Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...change is sustained...This free course, Understanding service improvement in healthcare, will help you to understand what people mean by the terms ‘service’ and ‘improvement’ in relation to healthcare. The course will help you to think about how those involved in healthcare, whether as practitioners or service users, can monitor the progress of any initiative to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing
Education & Development

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...change your wording, or improve your paraphrasing. Using Turnitin in this way gives you the chance to practise and make improvements, so your final work is stronger and shows your own voice clearly. In the next section you will look more closely at a Turnitin report and what it shows you...Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing: 3 What does a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...changing jobs, wondering how to move up the ladder or return to work after a break, and those who might be looking to aspire to better things...Planning a better future is an introductory course for anyone considering changing jobs, wondering how to move up the ladder or return to work after a break, and those who might be looking to aspire to better...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...changing demands on families who care for one another during illness – for example, when a family member is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Finally the course considers 'young carers': those children who take on the major responsibility of caring for a family member. Alongside studying issues of family health, this course will introduce you to interpreting...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...changed over time. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T849 Strategic capabilities for technological innovation...Technological innovation: a resource-based view: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the genesis and continuing development of the resource-based view of organisations...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...changing role in society. So now we have three things that help distinguish sociology. First, sociologists study what happens when people do things together. Second, they are interested in collective rather than individual phenomena. Third, they tend to focus on things that persist over time as well as moments in which they change. From here, we can begin to fill in more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs