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Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...businesses and transport their products, but soon canal companies began to form simply to get in the business of building new waterways to carry fuel and goods around the country, and charging companies and boat owners to use them. Out of the industrial revolution came an emerging middle class and a new crop of business owners with money to invest. They put their cash to...
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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...Business and Law (FBL) at The Open University. The project was premised on the fact that the largest group of stakeholders, after students, are the Associate Lecturers (ALs), also known as tutors. Associate Lecturers are responsible for teaching delivery, where they are the ‘face’ of OU academic staff for students. The OU has over 4,000 ALs, the largest body of...
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MAED (Applied Linguistics) at the OU
Languages

MAED (Applied Linguistics) at the OU

...business/professional communication, healthcare and many other real-life settings. You will develop a solid grounding in a range of ideas and techniques within applied linguistics (e.g. semantics, pragmatics, intercultural communication, conversation analysis, ethnography, language and globalisation, role of technologies) and apply this to case studies from a variety of...
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Open door to success
Education & Development

Open door to success

...business...Find out more about The Open University's courses and qualifications [DWP and OpenLearn logos] Through partnerships with leading providers of online education, the DWP are promoting resources that will benefit learners everywhere. They have selected these OpenLearn courses to enhance your digital and employability skills, so you can prepare more effectively to...
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Critical Reflection
Money & Business

Critical Reflection

...The value of generosity in management Is the idea of being generous compatible with the tough world of business? The value of improvisation in management Can ideas from improvised Jazz help you improve your management practice? The value of conversation in management Conversations, rather than individual intentions, can have the biggest impact on our management decisions....
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Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...business decisions. The course also includes videos that introduce the key ideas and guide you through numerous examples...This free course introduces basic ideas of probability. It focuses on dealing with uncertainty in a financial context and explores decision trees, a powerful decision-making technique, which can help you to simplify and formulate business decisions....
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...business that works with other businesses to help them understand their energy use to identify opportunities where they can reduce their energy bills and their environmental impacts. DANNY QUINN: We came up with the idea for the Black Sheep Collective really by just connecting with other artists and creative types that were kind of operating in silos and on their own and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The story of a female postal worker
Society, Politics & Law

The story of a female postal worker

...Businesses must let us use their facilities but obviously, during covid, there weren’t businesses open or there might not even be a business nearby. We are out for 6 hours, it is hard enough in day-to-day circumstances but it is even worse when you are on your period, going through menopause, heavy or unexpected flow. Managers will say if you have to break off and go to...
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