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Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...becomes an inclusive workplace when it accepts and makes use of the diversity of its workforce. Activity 5 Exploring inclusiveness in leadership Timing: Allow 20 minutes Select the answer for Activity 5 Exploring inclusiveness in leadership here Watch the video at the link below on 'global inclusion' by Ernest Gundling, co-founder and managing partner at Aperian Global....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...become expert readers, we may begin to see some flaws in the workmanship or in the coherence of the design itself. But as beginning students our first task is to become aware of the pattern of meanings which can be discerned in the novel we are studying. It is only with practice and experience that we shall begin to see that the flood of books we call novels have features...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...become a geographer fit for the twenty-first century. The six videos that make up this field trip have been carefully produced to ensure that the contributors you hear and see speak directly to the issues of the climate crisis; their views, in other words, are not mediated by a narrator. Such directness not only adds an urgency to the debate around the climate crisis, but...
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Article 5 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...become part of everyday life. But how can interactions be designed to best meet their purpose and offer good user experience? This free course, An introduction to interaction design, explores this topic. You will learn: what interaction design is; the importance of user-centred design - with its goals and principles; how interaction design focuses on the characteristics...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...becomes incremental not only in a product, but in a chain of production. It's where the big money lies for companies wanting to keep one step ahead of their competitors without the (in general) higher risks and longer timescales of innovation – 'our powder washes brighter', 'this battery lasts longer' or 'this car is quieter to drive'. Most technological items in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...OU and Radio 4. All our interviewees in this series are being asked the same first question which is: when did you first get interested in energy? NS: I’d been working on economics and development all my professional life, starting in the late sixties, so energy in relation to development has always been an important subject for me, but focussing on energy is really...
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Audio 5 mins
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...Student protests (which peaked in 1968) and the sexual revolution were significant expressions of this. Music and musical taste became extremely important to the counterculture. In particular, rock and folk music became its soundtrack. Figure 2 Women's Liberation Parade on 5th Avenue, New York, 16 August 1971...Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution: 3.1 Authenticity -...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...become ‘senior leadership teams’ (Gunter, 2004). It is important to note that we are not suggesting that people are either leaders or managers, but rather that most roles are an amalgam of the two and that the proportions may vary according to the context or situation. It may not be helpful to force a distinction between leaders and managers as that narrows down the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs