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Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...perceptions of assistants by two specialist teacher assistants working at Roche CommunitySchool in Cornwall (Strongman and Mansfield, 2004) found that most of the parents placed great value on the contribution of teaching assistants. As one parent wrote, ‘They are of value as a backup for the teacher, as an extra pair of eyes in the classroom.’ Another parent noted,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...perception, always becoming, never merely being – an arrival that always included its departure: ‘When the kids had killed the man / I had to break up the band’ as he sang of his most famous creation, Ziggy Stardust in 1972. This might explain why the extra-terrestrial (whether human or alien) was an abiding metaphor he returned to from the early days of Major Tom...
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Article 15 mins
Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...perceptions of what these users need and expect. Table 2 summarises stakeholders’ main needs from and interests in an organisation’s financial information. Table 2 Stakeholders' financial information needs and reasons for them Internal Main external Other external Managers Owners/shareholders Government agencies Planning, controlling, decision-making and stewardship...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...perception and speech recognition. GenAI: 'Generative artificial intelligence' refers to a subset of AI systems, designed to generate a variety of content (such as text or video) in response to user inputs based on the training data that they have reviewed. IP: 'Intellectual property' refers to a range of legal rights – copyright, trade secrets, designs, patents and...
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Article 20 mins
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...perceptions and imaginations, disrupting status quo ways of doing, thinking and feeling, and generating new ways of doing, thinking and feeling in the process. Let’s unpack this definition and take it one step at a time...Week 1: The meaning and value of leadership: 1.1 Leadership is a practice - [Described image] Figure 2 Leadership involves working together The first...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...perceptions of the world. Consciously making the choice between these poles, and all the variants in between, is an act of epistemological awareness. The choice one makes has profound implications for one's ranges of thought and action. Of course, knowing most of what I'm aware of is actually generated within my own brain does not mean I can make up any version of reality...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...perception of the world, at least to some extent. One of the key components in a good relationship is a sense of being understood and acknowledged. This can be understood in terms of individuals' need to test and affirm their sense of reality. It is possible, indeed common, to find that different people have different perceptions of the same events. By joining a group an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...perceptions could have some influence over the way in which you respond to and engage with individuals. This example, once again, shows that relying on ‘common sense’ is not sufficient. After all, only a few decades ago it was ‘common sense’ that certain kinds of work were ‘men’s work’ while other jobs were defined as ‘women’s work’. Similarly, it was...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs