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Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...Open University course B870 Managing in a changing world which looks at the different viewpoints surrounding the concept of management and managing...Contemporary issues in managing: Learning outcomes - By the end of this course, you should be able to: describe the nature of different types of managerial approaches adopted by organisations in contemporary time understand...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...Open University short courses for teachers and student teachers...Assessment in secondary science: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate what it means to make progress in science outline the features of formative assessment use a variety of techniques to assess students’ conceptual understanding evaluate the implementation of...
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...sources of wait time? In order to accelerate flow, what do you want to tackle first? The business agility patterns described in the next sections are fundamental enablers for improvements in Better Value Sooner Safer Happier outcomes within your organisation. Brief summaries are provided, but further information about these patterns can be found on YouTube at...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...source for our knowledge of the chronology of change in this sort of area is the roman novel called the Satyricon written by Petronius, he was one of Nero’s court and committed suicide in 66 AD when the emperor turned against him. In one surviving portion of the novel, Petronius describes a dinner party given by a freedman, a freed slave called Trimalchio, the whole...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?
History & The Arts

What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?

...source of the flu have varied but investigative work by virologist John Oxford and his team identified one of the camps on the Western Front as being at the centre of the flu outbreak. So how significant was the influenza outbreak on the casualties at the end of the First World War? “In the American Army it was hugely significant. I mean more American soldiers died of...
How do you tell the biological sex of a T-Rex?
Science, Maths & Technology

How do you tell the biological sex of a T-Rex?

...source for egg production. It can be easily mobilised from within an animal and transferred to the developing egg, and is therefore highly gender-specific for sexually mature females*. Medullary bone is stored in the long bones of birds. That is their arms and legs, pretty much. As we know that birds are descended from dinosaurs, that means if we find medullary bone in...
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...Open University course BG020 Commercial awareness...Commercial awareness: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate what an organisation exists to do: the value it creates appreciate a personal position within the organisation and how others relate to it relate the concept of a value chain to a personal working context, whilst...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...Open University’s True Potential Centre. We ended last week on Managing My Investments by looking at the factors that drive the levels of interest rates and share prices – two of the key factors that affect the returns from investments. This week, we look in detail at the variety of investment types, or ‘asset classes’ available to personal investors. We’ll look...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs