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Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...students, and with the textbook example identified in question 3. Looking beyond Fraser as an individual, it is possible to identify a number of what might be termed ‘social and ‘economic’ factors that have had a positive influence on the SuperJam venture. For example, Fraser’s family has provided a supportive environment in which he has been able to experiment...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...become a psychologist, but then in my career to try to do something about situations that lead to Nurse Ratcheds. ZOE WALKINGTON Interesting. So mine is much more from-- drawn from early childhood. And my favourite villain is Rumpelstiltskin. And that is because I can’t understand why he’s so angry. I don’t really get his backstory. He gets involved in spinning...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...becomes seen as a function of the follower, the leader and situational variables (Wortman, quoted in Crossman and Crossman, 2011). Followership is a relational role in which followers have the ability to influence leaders and contribute to the improvement and attainment of group and organisational objectives (Carsten et al., quoted in Crossman and Crossman, 2011). More...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...become an important tool in the development of eugenics and racist thinking, and was later linked with Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories and the racial hierarchies of social Darwinism. The growth of nationalism, and the early emergence of the nation state during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe. Increasingly, matters of political and personal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...OU study where remotely operable telescopes feature...PLEASE NOTE: After a hardware failure, COAST remains offline for now. All observing requests are being redirected to PIRATE. As Open University teaching and research commitments of PIRATE have to take priority, the observing time available for telescope.org requests is more limited and waiting times for images to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...become more confident too. You can work through the course at your own pace. To complete the course you will need access to a calculator, notepad, pen and protractor. The course has four sessions, with a total study time of approximately 48 hours. The sessions cover the following topics: numbers, measurement, data, and shapes and space. There will be plenty of examples to...
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Free course 48 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...become a regular feature of international meetings on development and/or the environment. The media's love of conflict, and the protestors' gift for creating compelling media images, underlined the sense that a very different way of looking at the world was being presented. The protestors are only the most visible expression of a line of argument that originated...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...become loose or unstuck. The relationships between various material properties and temperature do not all follow the same trends, and there are intriguing reasons for this that we will take this opportunity to examine. We shall also be looking at the practical implications of these different kinds of relationship by working through a real-world engineering problem. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs