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Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...system. It also discusses the role of operations managers, in particular the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers who are outside this boundary, as well as on other aspects of the operations system's external environment. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate study in business management. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...systems that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence’ (FasterCapital, 2025). AI in sports essentially refers to systems or technologies that carry out tasks normally performed by a human. AI has infiltrated many different areas of sports. From sport commentary, recruitment and judging, to coaching and athlete training. Movement patterns in...
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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...thinking about my workday. It’s Monday after all. I remember that I have a few meetings first thing today. The day starts with some admin and a meeting to talk about all the things we do here at AstrobiologyOU, which is then followed by a training session for our early career researchers. I love those, because it was more senior colleagues taking time for me when I was...
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Are movies really getting longer?
History & The Arts

Are movies really getting longer?

...think movies are getting longer and longer - but the data tells a more interesting story. Evan Stewart orders a large popcorn...[An audience at a free screening of the Jackass movie] One of the big themes in social theory is rationalization—the idea that people use institutions, routines, and other formal systems to make social interaction more efficient, but also less...
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Water supply and treatment in the UK
Science, Maths & Technology

Water supply and treatment in the UK

...system. The panel discusses how negative press can be avoided and what lessons were learned. Consulting the public The value of consistent, timely communication through the media when taking action in a time of drought Is recycling water good? People on the streets of Essex tell us what they think. The panel outline what we can do to help ourselves. Fresh water filtration...
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Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...system reform. There is definitely a difference. I think the other difference obviously is DFID is, we’re a government department. So ultimately our priorities are set by the government. And so we have a certain technical response to how we approach education and development but at the same time we have to support our minister’s vision for development across the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...system and how psychologists research vision understand the role of theory of mind in researching child development...Making sense of ourselves: 1 Why don’t we like one another? - In this section you will be introduced to the psychology of prejudice, through which psychologists have addressed the everyday question of why we don’t like one another. Prejudice can be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...system is important as it controls the main emotions associated with anxiety fear, happiness, and anger. Its responsible for the release of hormones that produces the flight, fight or freeze response. Now fold your fingers over your thumb like in the right-hand side of the figure below. This area of the brain is called the cerebral cortex, it’s the newest part of the...
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