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Linear programming – the basic ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Linear programming – the basic ideas

...research. It’s concerned with the skills needed to represent real optimization problems as mathematical models, and with techniques used in numerical analysis and operational research for solving these models by computer. Explaining how and when modelling and numerical techniques can be applied, the course covers solutions of non-linear equations; systems of linear and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
What is shareholder activism?
Money & Business

What is shareholder activism?

...class="highlight">RESEARCH/papers_files/BravJiangPartnoyThomas2008.pdf Krishnan, C. N. V., Partnoy, F., and Thomas, R. S., 2016, The Second Wave of Hedge Fund Activism: The Importance of Reputation, Clout, and Expertise. Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 15-9; Journal of Corporate Finance 40, 296-314, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2589992...
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Article 10 mins
Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...research project, Decolonising Religious Studies. We first interviewed the Associate Lecturers teaching on A227: Exploring Religion, focusing on their impressions of the curriculum and the difficulties that their students reported. Next, we carried out a survey of all students of A227 in June/July 2021 and held three focus group interviews with nine students in total. We...
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Article 25 mins
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...Research shows that while many students enjoy using social media as part of their learning experiences, some struggled to make decisions about how to best engage with it for their personal learning journey, whilst others had objections (Mallon and Dresden, 2023). While there are undoubtedly a range of benefits to using social media as part of your learning, there are also...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...research shows that wellbeing can mean different things to different people. For example, when we asked Open University students to sum up what wellbeing meant to them, some used words such as ‘contentment’, ‘calmness’ and ‘happiness’ that indicated they thought wellbeing was focused on aspects of mental health. However, other students provided words that...
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Article 10 mins
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...research and knowledge exchange between The Open University (Open University in Ireland, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Open University Library) and participants in the Time to Think archive. This includes Loyalist and Republican ex-prisoners who studied with The Open University in British and Irish prisons during the years of conflict (1972–2000), Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...centre moderno modern ciudad (la) city pequeño small comercial commercial precioso beautiful...Beginners' Spanish: Getting around: Introducción - In this session you are going to learn how to ask about different places of interest in Spain, Chile and Uruguay: what they are, where they are and what they look like. Key learning points Asking and answering where a monument...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...centres: These are often a good way of building a picture of employees’ development needs across a range of functions and activities. If used for TNA purposes, they need to be aligned with the overall performance management strategy. Observations: You might decide to collect data on what skills are deployed in a more naturalistic setting than that offered by interviews...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs