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Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...social and political issues. No individual can be expert in all of these disciplines, but the SHE manager should be able to appreciate the different perspectives and to recognise the trade-offs that are inevitable. Measure – ‘When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it.’ So said Lord Kelvin, the scientist...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...social science requires the collection of data in order to understand a phenomenon. This can be done in a number of ways, and will depend on the state of existing knowledge of the topic area. The researcher can: Explore a little known issue. The researcher has an idea or has observed something and seeks to understand more about it (exploratory research). Connect ideas to...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...social science, they would start with a rather short observation piece which is partly description but has to be linked to concepts. Then there are pieces which involve some statistical matter, and I think sometimes for students for whom English isn't their first language, that's an easier piece because describing the statistics is for some reason not quite so complicated...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Risk management Badge icon
Money & Business

Risk management

...interactive activity. Place these risks on the scale provided based on your work experiences of taking risks. For example if you think that organisations should normally aim to make an aspect of their business (say, cyber security) ‘low risk’ then select ‘low’. Discussion Table 1 ZERO LOW MEDIUM HIGH Breaking the law Investing in volatile countries, markets or...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...interaction. Reference: Underhill, A. (2010) Four reasons to teach pronunciation...Week 1 Why teach pronunciation?: Speaking with an accent - When learning a new language, our mother tongue undoubtedly exerts an influence over our pronunciation, which is perceived by native speakers as a foreign accent. The divergent pronunciation might be due to segmental errors (i.e....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...social media that make the I am Bradley Manning campaign distinct. For one, few of these campaigns involve a metaphor of one individual being another particular individual. The two exceptions noted above include the original “I am” metaphor of “We are all Khaled Said” and the later metaphor of “I am Trayvon Martin.” In the case of Khaled Said, the metaphor is...
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What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...social value. Literacy is a huge problem in this country and therefore we need more stories. I think the way we tell our British story – who we are as a people – comes through our crime novels and our literature, and I think it’s been a huge democratisation of publishing in the last ten years, which has meant that the snobbery has gone a bit – what we should read...
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Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers

...social psychologist – this merging of action and awareness is very much – nothing else is coming into our consciousness, we’re totally immersed in the activity. So we’re not thinking about our usual everyday worries, concerns and so forth, we’re just focusing on… Laurie Taylor: There’s that phrase “in the zone”, isn’t there, which tries to capture that...
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