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Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...Business School...Interpreting data: boxplots and tables: Acknowledgements - Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Course image: Paul L Dineen in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Don't...
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...business taxes, relaxing planning regulations or lowering employment standards in the hope of attracting the attention of footloose capital. This kind of ‘globalisation’ narrative, in which places are at the mercy of the whims of fickle global investors, is just one example of how academic descriptions of cities or places are not simply neutral observations. Fields...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...Busy work schedule. Too many ‘assignments’ from the district office. A lack of collaborative awareness. A lack of in-depth discussion. Reluctance to critique others. Teacher conformity in terms of thinking modes and teaching approaches. Rearranging teaching schedule to provide common meeting time. Reducing and integrating ‘assignments’. The reform of teacher...
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...busy street, we continually fine-tune our movements in response to visual cues of which we are not consciously aware – adjusting speed and direction to compensate for the movements of those around us. We also respond in this way to signals from our own bodies, shifting position to avoid cramp or to protect an injury, yet without consciously noticing any discomfort. In...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...business of social work. Much of the content of this course is drawn from research undertaken at The Open University. The Writing in Social Work Practice (WiSP) project gathered and analysed examples of social work texts and documented the experiences of social workers’ writing in children’s services, mental health services and adult services teams. You can find more...
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...Money invested in a savings account appears to grow 'exponentially'. The mathematical function that can be fitted to all these scenarios is the exponential function y = exp(x); it is plotted in Figure 12(a). The function exp(x) is alternatively written as ex. [Figure 12] Figure 12 Exponential functions: (a) y = exp(x), (b) y= exp(−x), (c)y = exp(−1/x) On calculators...
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...busy but also include people that you do not directly know. Much of what we have said already about being careful what you post and respond to applies to this app, but there are some specific concerns around the type of accessibility that WhatsApp gives to other students. Particularly as you may be used to using the app, consider the following when using WhatsApp for...
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...money, but they’ve got a lot of happiness. I’d rather be them. I would rather be that person. And I’m not saying that just for effect. I mean that. I’d rather be happy. And I would certainly rather my son was that person and that happy. So if there’s any advice it is, try not worry your entire life away. Do the moment. Plan, yeah. But do the moment and love the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs