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Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...studying this course in order to take the survey. The course will take approximately 15 hours to complete, divided up into 5 weeks, each of which follows a standard pattern to make it easier to plan your time. As you work through the course, there are some in-text activities to help test your understanding of the material. At the end of the course you will receive a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...study in Sociology...Information technology: a new era?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the relationship between technological change and industrial revolutions appreciate the pervasive effect that new technologies can have on the economy and, in particular, on productivity understand how industry dynamics can be analysed...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and Connections: The Scots-Irish experience in America

...skills in housing construction, shoemaking, printing work and hand loom weaving were increasingly sought after. The development of trading links between Ireland and the American colonies also facilitated passenger travel. For instance, Irish-American partnerships established regular shipping routes between Philadelphia and the Irish ports of Cork, Dublin, Belfast and...
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Article 5 mins
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...skills, are unemployed and come from a lower income or impoverished background. There is a stronger link, therefore, between poverty and prisons than there is between dangerousness and prisons. In the U.S. around 16,000 people die each year as a result of street crime. Contrast this with the 55,000 who die as a result of corporate criminal negligence. A similar story can...
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Article 12 mins
Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...skills I’ve been discussing – and it’s important to remain open to alternative interpretations. Even the truth about ‘what the evidence shows’ is nuanced. People disagree about all sorts of things that affect our lives – sport, the regulation of business, public health, eating meat, who should lead the country, etc. – and people use all sorts of arguments,...
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Article 5 mins
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...study the context within which the Byzantine icon was developed and the purpose it served (and still serves). As such, the Bible is a vital source for understanding the subjects depicted on Byzantine icons. Once you're familiar with the concept of the Byzantine icon, in Week 2 you will learn how to ‘read’ an icon. Since the subjects depicted on icons rely on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...skills while working under a time limit. After passing the interview, psychometric tests and my medical, I was awarded a Train Drivers job at the age of 20. My training would start in September that year, by which time I would be 21 years old. It is important to note that in Scotland a person must be 21 years or older to legally be allowed to drive a train. [Nicole, 21,...
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Article 5 mins
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...studies examining violence against Indigenous women in Canada – which found that all asked similar questions and produced similar recommendations, none of which had been implemented. In their review of research priority setting in relation to ‘Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME)’ health, Iqbal et al. (2021) highlight the non-inclusion of these communities in...
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Article 25 mins