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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
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
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...study in Education, Childhood & Youth...Motivation and factors affecting motivation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define the term ‘motivation’ appreciate different views of how people are motivated apply different theories to an individual’s motivation...Motivation and factors affecting motivation: 1 Motivation - The study...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 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
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...study materials, links to some of the most important institutions that contribute to our understanding of the history of Wales, and a pool of resources that can help you understand Welsh history and the way it is studied. Included in the material is a taster of the Open University course Small country, big history: themes in the history of Wales (A182)...This free course,...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
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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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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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