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A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture

...source of cultural values, where they originate from. The competing perspective is that a culture does not exist in the mind but can be found in society. Schwartz (2009) disagrees with Odin – sorry, I mean, Hofstede – and says: ‘Culture is outside the individual. It is not located in the minds and actions of individual people. Rather, it refers to the press to which...
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African and Caribbean coaches in international football: is there enough progress?
Health, Sports & Psychology

African and Caribbean coaches in international football: is there enough progress?

...sources highlight that participation and progression are often hampered by financial disparities. The cost of elite licensing remains a significant barrier; for example, the NFF/CAF A-License costs between $2,000 and $3,000, which is a prohibitive sum for many local candidates without National or club backing, in Nigeria. To address this, policy recommendations suggest...
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Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...source material from inside the BBC through BBC Motion Gallery and Worldwide. And people from inside the BBC ask me to source material from outside the BBC. But for most part they both want the same thing, which as you say is the behaviour of the animals. That is one of the driving things about the NHU that it makes, the fact is it says, ‘this animal does this thing, we...
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Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...Open University course M248 Analysing data...Interpreting data: boxplots and tables: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand and use the following terms: boxplots, box, whisker, upper and lower adjacent values, rate, time series, line plot demonstrate an awareness of the idea that the general pattern of a set of data, in terms of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...Open University course (AA308) that is no longer available. The content has been used as the basis for a section of Part 1 of the MA in Philosophy (A853) qualification. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Introducing consciousness: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...Open University course B861 Investment and portfolio management...Asset allocation in investment: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise how typical client objectives and constraints impacts on asset allocation set client risk and return objectives in the context of an asset allocation process describe the reasons for a written...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...Open University course From Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780-1830 (A207)...Brighton Pavilion: 2 A prince at the seaside - In this section we will take a closer look at the life of George IV and what brought him to Brighton. The Prince of Wales (see Figure 2 ), known familiarly to his friends as ‘Prinny’, was born in 1762 and destined to become Prince Regent in 1811...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...Open University. Like all great broadcasters and all great educationalists, Evan’s outstanding gift is to make complex and technical issues clear and easily understood. And like all great communicators, he does it with infectious enthusiasm, a ready wit and a clear love of his subject. As one journalist put it, Evan stands at the crossroads where brains meets charm....
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