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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: have greater insight into decision-making processes use that insight to make more effective decisions possess a range of different perspectives on what counts as an ‘effective’ decision be better equipped to understand and influence the decision-making processes of other individuals and groups...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand and identify customers, consumers and clients and their needs and expectations apply these ideas to a work context and recognise customers, consumers and clients and their needs and expectations understand and identify financial stakeholders of an organisation and their information needs...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...learning guide together for use in your practice. You will consider how to protect your service users, your colleagues and yourself. Many of the measures you explore will be familiar to you through your role, but this is an opportunity to take a fresh look at them. The focus is on the physical systems that can be used to control infection. You will review standard...
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Article 1 hr
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the distinction drawn in this course between artificial intelligence and Symbolic AI describe various possible tests for machine intelligence explain the concepts of a computer model and of an optimisation problem distinguish between a simulation, a replication and an emulation distinguish...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...learn about how we measure that energy, and that’s all related to Einstein’s famous equation e equals mc squared. Stay with us and it’ll all become clear. In Week 1 you’ll learn about the science behind nuclear energy. This learning will set you up for the rest of the course as you consider nuclear energy in context. Before you start, The Open University would...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the value and best way of note taking...Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences: 1.1 Note taking in this context - Although the audio file included in this course was designed to compliment the D218 Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity Open University course its contents are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...learn some of the basics of music technology, starting with what sound is, how it is created and how it travels...Whether you're a professional musician, play music with your friends on the weekends or just like to listen to CDs, music technology affects your life. In this free course, Sound for music technology: An introduction, you will learn some of the basics of music...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...learn how lemurs, anteaters, bears and many others have developed different methods to help movement and survival...David Attenborough looks at life in the trees: examining how species have evolved to cope with arboreal living. In this free course, Studying mammals: Life in the trees, you will learn how lemurs, anteaters, bears and many others have developed different...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs