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Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...learning is difficult (long distances, poor public transport and inflexible timetables). She has identified a need for language-based CPD and translation services among local businesses involved in exporting their products to mainland Europe. Whatever your motivation for tackling this course of study, it will take you on a journey looking at the challenges posed when you...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...learn from the practice of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity professionals work to prevent attacks, and to respond to those that happen, in several ways. They identify threats and vulnerabilities in their systems and networks. They create and execute procedures to operate those systems. And they otherwise work to provide a secure cyberspace for their organizations. They also...
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Article 5 mins
Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh
OpenLearn Ireland

Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh

Learn about seabirds in enormous numbers, the changing appearance of the landscape as plant species changed with the changing temperatures and a relict fish that’s being conserved by local volunteers...These videos concentrate on the species that have lived in Northern Ireland since the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000 years ago. You’ll learn about seabirds in...
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Video 5 mins
The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges
Society, Politics & Law

The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges

...learned the lessons of that local strike, and used the same tactics for all the other national campaigns and strikes successfully. We have had to conduct these against employers out to recreate their private fiefdoms by undermining national bargaining. After signing deals under pressure, they would regularly renege on them. The second running theme for EIS-FELA is...
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Article 10 mins
Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...learning and performance. It is usually given to the person in response to behaviour, processes, or effectiveness: on the ‘how’ things have been done or ‘what’ has been done (Besieux, 2017). Shute (2008) also highlights that feedback is not only crucial to improving skills and knowledge, but also to increasing motivation. And if corrective feedback, it should be...
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Article 10 mins
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...Learning outcomes - After completing this course, you should be able to: evaluate end-of-life care approaches in the UK and challenges to care delivery evaluate the usefulness of theoretical models of death, dying and bereavement recognise the relevance of critical social perspectives associated with death, dying and bereavement critically reflect on policy and practice...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of some of the debates and key concepts involved in the study of family life; show the connectedness that has developed over time between the work men and women do inside the home and women's role in paid employment use numerical data to show the diversity of family life in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...learn from philosophy? Discover business ethics...“That’ll be a short discussion then”, somebody commented when told we were doing a podcast on business and ethics. In fact, there is a strange shortage of philosophical literature on business ethics. In contrast, there’s a library of books on medical ethics. One puzzle in business ethics is how we should view a...
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Audio 15 mins