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Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...centred’ and challenge traditional economic value assumptions...Understanding organisational value: 1 Understanding organisational value - Creating value is an important part of any and all organisations. You will learn the definition of organisational value and its relationship to organisational values, as you study this course. You will start by examining your...
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...children. He wrote me a letter the Christmas after the surgery, and he said 'My father sent me two presents this year. First, a motorised CD rack from the Sharper Image that I didn't really need, but I knew he was giving it to me to celebrate the fact that I'm living on my own and have a job I seem to love. And the other present was a photo of my grandmother, who...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...research to inform personal initial views on openness; integrate decisions regarding online privacy and identity into choices to be more open or closed when working online; be aware of online networking and how such activity may develop and be visualised...Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?: 1 Investigating an open landscape - In this opening section Anne...
Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...children would rather I didn’t talk about what I might want to happen. So why have things changed so much? There is no doubt the advances of medicine have improved our lives. Better sanitation, vaccinations and antibiotics have meant fewer children’s deaths and a longer life expectancy for most of us. Thankfully this has made death less common, but it has also...
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...Centre for Languages and Cultures, this free short course provides an introduction to Ukrainian languages and culture. This course is for everybody who is interested in finding out about Ukraine and its people and wants to get a first insight into its rich cultural heritage. It is also for learners who interact directly with Ukrainian refugees, for example by hosting...
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...centres to house thousands of special computers and data storage devices to store your data. Access to the data is made possible by the internet, which you will look at later in this course. You might think a cloud as an anonymous, unknown location that is shared by many unrelated users. The location is owned, managed and operated by a business, or academic or government...
How many different types of smile are there?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How many different types of smile are there?

...researcher into smiles over the past 30 years has been Paul Ekman at the University of California. His 1978 Facial Action Coding System, written with Wallace V Friesen, seeks to create an atlas of nearly all possible human expressions. Ekman says, in his book Telling Lies, that their technique for measuring the face can distinguish over 50 different smiles. Confused?...
Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...research organisation MORI interviewed 1,955 adults across the UK. Of the 949 of these who said they would be certain to vote if there were an election the next day, 39% said they would vote Conservative, 35% Labour, 19% Liberal Democrat, and the rest for other parties or candidates. These numbers are statistics in the plural sense; they are facts about what the...