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Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...research technique of decision-tree analysis, which can be useful for showing the links between choices and the risk implications of making those choices. Even if you do not go through the whole process of estimation and ‘roll back’, just drawing the tree will often clarify cause and effect. Box 7 The concept of a decision tree The principle in this
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...researched. This section examines a hierarchy of public health interventions, which are traditionally considered to operate at three different ‘levels of prevention’. Although you should be aware that there is some artificiality in separating them in this way, they provide a useful framework to illustrate the diversity of public health strategies for preventing...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...research (OR) and management science projects. They asked the analysts working on the projects and the managers responsible for implementation to classify their own projects according to the degree of success. As you can see, the analysts regarded 63% of the projects to be successful and implemented whereas only 20% of them were classified thus by the managers. Table 3...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...research about learning which has shown that this approach can actually improve your performance. Certainly it can and will make you a more efficient and effective learner. Before we start to explore the process, let us consider two general points about learning. There is no single method of learning that guarantees success. How you learn best depends on many different...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...research and development. Employee Freelance commercial artists and designers. ‘We wanted to pool resources, collaborate together on web projects, and, ultimately, work towards a vision of a more sharing society.’ Greater resource sharing leads to more innovative products. Greater collaboration leads to more committed and motivated workforce. Operations Websites....
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...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 8 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...research process? As individuals and as social scientists, we are often confronted with information that is presented to us in the form of images in newspapers, magazines, books, posters, etc. In some cases we may confront the same image in two apparently quite different places: the front page of a newspaper, for instance, and the walls of an art gallery. It is worth...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...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