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Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...article that was the starting point for the focus on good development management in this course, Thomas (1999) says: The clearest examples of good development management will be those which use the enabling and empowerment mode of management to achieve development goals for the relatively powerless. However, the majority of cases will be more ambiguous, with value-based...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...article in an academic journal, or a textbook such as those we find as part of Open University courses. What is the status of photographs as evidence? Is there any real difference between news and advertising pictures, for instance? How, as social scientists, should we approach the ‘reading’ or analysis of documentary photographs? Can we use photographs to inform us...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...articles in magazines. Many of these books were written (or at least claimed to be written) by doctors and other health-care professionals. An article about pregnancy in the opening number of Woman magazine in 1932, for example, was allegedly written by ‘Mumsie, the wife of a famous children's doctor’ – a persona neatly combining medical authority and the status of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...et al., 2017, p. 76): business models as attributes of real firms having a direct real impact on business operations business models as cognitive/linguistic schema business models as conceptual representations/descriptions of how an organisation functions. You will look at each of these in more detail in the following sections...Business models in strategic management:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...articles...Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period: 1 Modernism - It is worth spending a moment now to untangle some of the terms that will be used explicitly in this course and that you will regularly encounter in readings on interwar society. First, ‘modernisation’, which is a process of evolution, by which early modern and pre-industrial societies are...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...Article 3, which reads: In all actions concerning children … the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration (Unicef, no date) However, when drafting the Convention its authors were very careful not to set up rights to something that is legally meaningless. The preamble to the UNCRC states an ideal and recognises that in a perfect world all children...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...articles/ familiesandthelabourmarketengland/ 2019 (Accessed 17 October 2021)...Session 1: wealth: where you’re at right now: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Ayesha Peeran, Martin Upton and Jitka Vseteckova in collaboration with Legal & General. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...article, journalist Olga Khazan investigates how homophobic sentiments and laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community have gained traction in Russia in recent years. She spoke to several activists and scholars in search of an explanation of how homophobia is being linked to a Russian national identity: ‘To the degree that a given society that is insecure about its political,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs