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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
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
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
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
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
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...become ‘everybody’s business’ and is undertaken by a wide range of people, not just in the health sector but in other sectors too. It is both ‘multi-professional’ – involving professionals such as police, teachers, housing officers as well as health workers – and ‘inter-sectoral’ – involving different government departments, local government, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...students don’t understand what you’re saying, you might repeat it or reword it – or say it more loudly! Generally, there are a number of things you might do when you are not understood. You might speak more loudly or more slowly; you might try repeating or rewording what you said; you might ask your listener if they understood you. Sometimes you might even try...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...students. [MUSIC PLAYING] FIONA SCOTT: I'm Fiona Scott. I work at the University of Hertfordshire in a S&C department within that called Performance Herts. We deliver to university athletes, as well as external clubs such as Saracens Mavericks, Arsenal Ladies, Women's FC. And then on top of that, we've done workshops in S&C areas and fields, and also lecture. Today we're...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Safer battery could spark investment in renewables
Nature & Environment

Safer battery could spark investment in renewables

...student at Harvard, Michael Marshak, now assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and colleagues report in Science journal that, instead of costly and difficult-to-handle metals, they have tested naturally-occurring, carbon-based molecules called quinines for the negative electrolyte component of the battery. They had started their...
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Article 5 mins