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Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...Social Processes of Leadership and Organizing,’ The Leadership Quarterly, 17(6), 654–76. Zoller, H. M. (2003) ‘Working out: Managerialism in workplace health promotion’. Management Communication Quarterly, 17(2), pp. 171–205...Contemporary issues in managing: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Gordon Liu. It was first published in June 2020....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...work together in huge numbers, but they do so in a very rigid manner and only with close relatives. Wolves and chimpanzees cooperate far more flexibly than ants, but they can do so only with small numbers of other individuals that they know intimately. Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. Any large-scale human...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms
Education & Development

Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms

...work, named ‘voices of our generation’ to help students to convey and justify their own opinions, and question the opinions of others, on topics such as ‘social media’ and ‘education’. Talk Factory was also used on the interactive whiteboard to support whole class discussions, and the app was used on iPads, by students, during group discussions and during an...
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Article 5 mins
From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world
Health, Sports & Psychology

From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world

...work due to long-term sickness (Powell, 2024). The UK, therefore, is increasingly sick, and demand for health care and treatment far outstrips the availability of services. But we cannot rely on the NHS to solve this. Important as the NHS is in treating and curing disease when it arises, it is not built to address the underlying factors contributing to the UK’s...
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Article 5 mins
Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...Working with their communities, schools might draw on these varied experiences to encourage students to consider the shared nature of human suffering and motivations for war across time and place. This has relevance to learning in many areas of the curriculum, including History, PHSE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) and Religious Studies. It can help...
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Article 5 mins
From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...work behind the scenes of our everyday lives; and the field was going to take a giant leap forward by returning to a maligned technology from the past. From the mid-1980s onwards perceptrons, unfairly dismissed as another discredited technology, began to make a comeback as the building blocks for artificial neural networks - a technology inspired by the structure of...
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Article 5 mins
How do you become a digital artist?
History & The Arts

How do you become a digital artist?

...work...Artist Duggie Fields has recently added a computer to the tools of his trade. Duggie has been an artist for over 30 years, building up a reputation as one of the world's leading post-pop artists. He has exhibited world-wide, and his London flat acts as a mini gallery of his work. Duggie's desire to reach a wider audience made him turn to computers and the Internet...
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Activity 10 mins
Doreen Massey: Space, Place and Politics
Society, Politics & Law

Doreen Massey: Space, Place and Politics

...work which has had a profound influence on theorising around space and place and has taken the study of geography into new inter-disciplinary directions... Introduction by Doreen Massey Doreen talks about her life and work at The Open University. Why geography matters OU Professor John Allen introduces the lecture Relational thinking Professor Ash Amin from Durham...
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Audio 2 hrs 32 mins