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Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...sources, and on their return, perform intricate dances for their co-workers. The dances convey details of where to find abundant blooms. But how to decide on the best source, where the flowers are most full of nectar and where the colony should direct its efforts? Due to their differing experiences in the field, workers have different suggestions for what is ‘best’...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...sources of her poverty in a town whose main economic base has collapsed. It challenges social priorities when financial self-sufficiency and parental responsibility are in conflict. And it opens debate about whether the purpose of workfare is to save the state money, to reduce labour costs, to train an unskilled workforce or to discipline a population. Cutting across all...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...Open University course DD105 Introduction to criminology...An introduction to crime and criminology: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: provide a basic definition of ‘crime’ demonstrate that ideas about what a crime is and what it is not are often contested provide a definition of what criminology is and the subject matter it...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...source of popular concern and anxiety (Beck, 1992). However, amid this growing acknowledgement of the severity of human-induced or anthropogenic environmental issues, we should not forget that physical processes are highly variable, and sometimes extremely volatile, even without human input. Recent years have seen a number of sharp and shocking reminders of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...Open University course K118 Perspectives in Health and Social Care...Introducing ageing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of current issues in ageing and later life reflect on experiences of ageing and later life analyse case studies of care situations, drawing out their wider relevance to...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...sources of investment. They bring new money for Africa. They create the demand for African goods. So one of the things we've seen, for example, in those countries which do export raw materials is that the prices of those materials have gone up because of the demand from China. So this means theoretically more revenue for those countries. So that's kind of a good thing....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Three Irish poets - introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish poets - introduction

...Open University's English courses and qualifications. [Ellen o'Leary, Katharine Tynan and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill] In this collection of articles we look at three female Irish poets. The first two - Ellen O’Leary (1831-1889) and Katharine Tynan (1859-1931) - wrote in English. Though these poets are not very widely known today, they were extremely popular and influential...
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Article 5 mins
60 second adventures in economics: The Principle Of Comparative Advantage
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: The Principle Of Comparative Advantage

...Open University's Economics courses. Transcript: Whether you think economies work best if they're left alone or that governments need to do something to get them working, the one thing that can’t be controlled is the rest of the world. Fear of foreign competition once led countries to try and produce everything they needed, and impose heavy taxes to keep out foreign...
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Video 5 mins