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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of the strategic importance of communications in a competitive environment...Marketing communications as a strategic function: 1 Barriers to a strategic view - Marketing communications is not always accepted as having strategic importance in organisations. This course...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the criteria that must be satisfied before starting new drug development say how an understanding of the pharmaceutical background is a necessary basis for the design of the new drug understand the strategies used in the research programme and how they led eventually to the development of a new...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of the links between physical activity and mental health understand some of the proposed theories of why exercise benefits mental health...Exercise and mental health: 1 Exercise and mental health - Activity 1 The psychological benefits of exercise Timing: Allow about 30 minutes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...learning? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions this course is for you. This course is introduced by Martha Lane Fox, the Chancellor of The Open University and a significant figure in the voluntary sector. This free online course, Working in the voluntary sector, will introduce you to some of the main activities carried out by volunteers and staff, will give you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...learning about the nature of leadership and of organisations as you explore the issues that arise when people from different organisations – with their different structures and cultures – try to work together. Finally, we look at ways in which you can develop your own professional practice in these areas of work and ‘make partnerships work’, including as you begin...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the issues and processes that relate to team formation and development in a virtual context identify barriers to effective team work in a virtual environment and propose solutions review and comment on team activities in a virtual environment and develop insights to make informed judgements...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...learn about the lifecycle of different types of star, their birth and what happens when they die. Find out about nuclear fusion that happens inside a star and how their mass, luminosity and temperature are related to their lifecycle. In Week 3, you will investigate what the night sky can reveal about how it all began. You’ll be able to join our team investigating the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...learning in this important and current area of study....Session 1: What is the IoE?: Introduction - Early in your reading you will discover that the terms ‘internet of everything’ and ‘internet of things’ are interchangeable. Many British readers will be used to the different words being used for the same thing. In our living rooms, we can equally sit on a sofa or...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs