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Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...research. This is the case for firms that collect credit data from their customers: that data is then used by other paying customers to offer loan services to clients. The following animation exemplifies the functioning of the model. Animation 4 Multisided business model Managing this business model means controlling how the two groups of customers receive benefit from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...research, where this is appropriate. Time series analysis takes historical data and looks at the patterns in it with the intention of understanding future demand if the same patterns repeat. The analysis can range from the relatively simple approaches of understanding averages (‘moving averages’), to much more complex multi-variate techniques and probabilistic...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...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
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...research and quotations threaded throughout the piece; and her frequent use of interpolation and parenthesis. She also likes to directly address her reader, so that we get the feeling of being in a personal conversation: ‘Say it with me now.’ All of these features help create a very principled voice – a voice that can permit different sides of an argument to have...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...research department, where I learned a bit more what was going on. And one of my tasks, in those days, we didn't have the internet, wasn't working in the way it did now, was I had to go on the boards and pin up the financial newspapers so that everybody in the company could read them. That was, well, induction type job going there. Now I'd just come from representing my...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...research for a really long time. Well, we’re talking about being able to choose to participate in these experiments as perfectly healthy people and really investigate what’s possible. It allows us to move with an alacrity that science and medicine cannot in its current state.” And the reality is that these endeavours do not go unnoticed by academics. Kevin Warwick...
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Article 10 mins
Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War

...researching the role of German decision-makers, and in particular Kaiser Wilhelm II, in the events that led to the outbreak of war. Christopher Clark published his acclaimed study The Sleepwalkers in 2012. In it he argues against the idea that we can identify a guilty party. ‘There is no smoking gun’ in the hands of the leaders of one country; rather, they were all...
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Audio 30 mins
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...research, and they find themselves. [MUSIC PLAYING] Belonging to land and ancestors Discussion The flow between ritual and performance is an interesting example of a relationship between religion and culture. You might also be familiar with other examples. Music originally intended for religious ceremonies (such as Catholic Masses, Islamic Sufi dhikr, Hindu and Sikh...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr