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The Arts Past and Present: Diva
History & The Arts

The Arts Past and Present: Diva

...skills all need to be honed. Catherine tackles the tragic aria of the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and is praised by her tutors. In the audio track Elaine Moohan from the Music Department at The Open University unpicks some of the issues emerging from Catherine's story, and suggests that it's not good for one's reputation to develop a diva-like personality!...
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Business matters in voluntary organisations
Education & Development

Business matters in voluntary organisations

...study university-level modules helps YASS students to gain skills like independent learning, digital skills and time management before going into Higher Education. The incredibly flexible nature of YXM130 that you can choose what you want to make up your required study hours, is for me, my favourite aspect of this module as it gives me the ownership and choice! As I work...
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Health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Health and wellbeing

...skills for further study. If I was to study this module, I would focus on courses relevant to diet, health and physical activity, an area I am passionate about, so that I can develop greater understanding of how to live a healthy and active lifestyle. I would combine this with courses that focus on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing so that I can...
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How international is management education?
Money & Business

How international is management education?

...study was on cross-cultural differences across groups of learners in the United Kingdom, in other European countries, and in Russia and studying the course in different languages. Using a mixed-method approach, the study’s results challenge the distinction between “internationalisation at home” and “internationalisation away” perspectives on curricula, due to...
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Start your career with OpenLearn
Education & Development

Start your career with OpenLearn

...study. We also have a 'Skills for Work' area on OpenLearn to help you enhance your work skills. Succeed in the workplace Whatever career path you choose to take, there are skills that will be relevant to them all – team work, communication, leadership… and you’ll find them all in our collection of ‘soft skills’ courses, as approved by Google. You can also check...
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Advance your independent learning: the innovative and personalised module (YXM830)
Education & Development

Advance your independent learning: the innovative and personalised module (YXM830)

...studies demonstrate experience of independent, online, and distance learning. You may now wish to consider how this learning could be developed further at postgraduate level...Transcript This innovative module gives you the opportunity to advance your research skills whilst investigating a specific question or topic that relates to your professional context, previous...
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How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...skills. Research undertaken during 2020 showed us that over half the audience at the time was using the platform because of events relating to the pandemic – a combination of furlough, redundancy, supporting others’ education, needing to improve online teaching skills or simply having more time to learn. Importantly, across the platform, 38% of learners declared they...
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International Management
Money & Business

International Management

...across national boundaries and with multi-cultural groups is a skilled activity. Some of the required skills are learned, through experience and study, but others are more innate. In this podcast we will break down the ways that multinational organizations are measuring these skills, and we will hear from the managers and academics who have practical advice to dispense....
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