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Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?

...become trapped in our own perspectives, unable to see a way out of conflict. I come to Ireland to remember that peace is possible. As a Palestinian American, I deeply connect with the Northern Irish experience. Each visit gives me hope. Not naive optimism, but a practical belief in a peace grounded in restorative justice, not surrender. Aziz Abu Sarah CEO Mejdi Tours June...
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Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...becomes active rather than passive, and helps you to remember what you have read. This section explores in a different way what managers do. It considers managerial tasks and roles. As you read, consider the main day-to-day tasks in which you are engaged. Then take note of how Mintzberg categorises managerial activities into roles. Which roles are dominant in your job, or...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...STUDENT 60. BOY 2 Higher. A lot higher. BOY 1 Higher. [MUSIC PLAYING] BOY 1 Each one of these turbines powers 500 houses, which is 2500 total. BOY 2 Solar group, if you want to gather around here. LIZ ROTHSCHILD We’ve got this fantastic team of student environmental educators who we’ve been working with in the local secondary school. BOY 2 It’s called an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...become more proficient at using manipulatives, the teachers will begin to link the manipulatives to pictures, and to use pictorial images to represent number. As the children become more proficient at using images, they will be carefully introduced to more abstract ways of representing a number problem. Whenever children need to make sense of new knowledge, teachers will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...become a very important issue again. Mary Ruth Lister talks about citizenship in relation to membership of a community, but are we all equal in the community? In recent years there have been many challenges to the idea of universal citizenship, the idea that we are all equal before the law, but what about our access to the social benefits of welfare provision for example....
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...students and their tutors has to be addressed in order for the tutors to be able to assess their students’ progress on a given course of study. The UK postal service became the key component of the solution that enabled The Open University to deal with large numbers of assignments. At regular intervals during the presentation of a course, students are required to submit...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...Becoming a practitioner-researcher - When researching an aspect of an organisation – in this case to make change – you can think about your role in relation to this research. In this case, you can call yourself a ‘practitioner-researcher’, due to the fact that you are working within the organisational context in which you would like to make a change. Different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...becoming perhaps defensive, dependent or argumentative. Awareness of both our state of mind and the other person's can help to achieve more effective communication and to develop more positive relationships...The importance of interpersonal skills: 3 Roles - Quite often in work situations we are asked to work with a group of people we have not met before and with whom we...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs