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Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...research tasks. Being able to find your way round a study website. (Nowadays course information is often presented online and there is no guarantee that your study materials will be in printed books.) Being able to use word processing packages to present your work. Knowing how to write online messages to your tutor or peer group or how to take part in live interactive...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...research, data-led insights. But also, let’s not forget there is a little bit of intuitive experience that we’re bringing to bear. Effective leadership recognises the need to embed wellbeing and inclusion throughout the different levels and roles within an organisation. For wellbeing, this could mean diversifying the one-size-fits-all support approach and ensuring...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy and research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...researchers will have their distinctive sources of information and knowledge when they undertake comparisons of education. Each of these actors will use different methods to gather and compare evidence. For instance, practitioners and policy makers may look for very different kinds of evidence of children’s learning: the former may draw on observations of children’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...research into the measurement of innovation used by organisations. For instance, Schumpeter’s definition has been used by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to set out the Oslo Manuals to inform innovation policy (OECD, 2005; OECD/Eurostat 2018). The innovation process is defined, based on the OECD/Eurostat report (2018), as the process by...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...researchers were working on theories to explain strong interaction symmetry in particle physics. These were Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig. These scientists proposed that the properties of hadrons (more on these in the next section) could be explained if they were composed of smaller constituents. What is known now to be quarks! Figure 1 Murray Gell-Mann (left) and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...research Data entry and handling Using social media/networking Problem solving Understanding your digital carbon footprint User experience design, and digital design Coding Programming, web, and app development SEO, SEM, and content creation Data science, analysis, and visualisation Digital learning and development Digital project and product management Digital marketing...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...research and development spending and the rise in investments in business capital, including computers. Such investments, argue the optimists, should allow productivity to keep growing. Pessimists, such as the US economist R.J. Gordon, claim that recent productivity gains have been only cyclical, that is, a result of the fact that the US economy has been experiencing a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs