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Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...studying this course, you should be able to: identify and describe the meaning of employee engagement and its different components appreciate the strategic issues associated with employee engagement describe the changes in systems of employee relations appreciate the impact of structures of management and ownership on employee engagement reflect on the current state of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise an increased interest in exploring the history of reading understand a range of examples of research into the history of reading use RED to follow up any personal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...study. RH: OK. So tell me what you’ve found which is new? CP: So with the warming that we’ve had what we expected and what we’ve generally found is that most species are responding by either changing where they live, by shifting poleward or up the mountains or changing the timing of spring events, so they’re breeding early, emerging earlier, migrating earlier. But...
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Audio 5 mins
Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...study. The events I’ll describe connect the human world of science and politics, and the non-human world of material objects and other living things like plants, in a way that only a subject like Geography can do. So we start in Syria, a place which has been the site of intense armed conflict and political and social instability. The immediate human cost of war is...
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Audio 5 mins
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...Studies in Education, 5(2), pp. 101–15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/0951839920050202 (Accessed: 23 April 2025). Fox, A. and Busher, H. (2022) ‘Democratising ethical regulation and practice in educational research’, Education Sciences, 12(10), p. 674. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12100674 (Accessed: 23 April 2025). Jack, V. (2016)...
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Article 30 mins
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...study by Henning (2018) also points to the fact that white police officers tend to overestimate the ages of Black boys and underestimate the ages of their white peers. Moreover, Henning’s work suggests that harassment and negative interaction with white police officers experienced as boys, hugely negate attitudes toward the police as these Black boys grow to adulthood....
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the input–process–output framework, the extensions of it, and apply them to a wide range of operations examine the types of transformation processes occurring within operations define the roles and responsibilities of operations managers and the challenges they face reflect on your own operations management...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...studying this free course, Dutch painting of the Golden Age, you will discover that there is much more to Dutch painting than meets the eye. You will explore scholarly debates about the possible meanings that might be attributed to this type of picture and learn how the very idea of ‘realism’ in art has been challenged in recent times...Seventeenth-century Dutch...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs