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Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...skills are required. No knowledge of calculus is required. Bayesian statistics consists of material from M249 Book 4, Bayesian statistics, and has three sections in total. You should set aside between three to four hours to study each of the sections; the whole extract should take about 12 hours to study. The extract is a small part (around 5%) of a large course that is...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?
Education & Development

How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?

...study part-time are increasingly squeezed, reports John Butcher...Part-time higher education in the UK is contracting dramatically. The decline in numbers is critical, especially in England, where there were 47% fewer part-time students in 2013-14 than there were in 2010. In my recent research, surveying part-time students who have hung on, I found they feel sidelined by...
Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...Skills Service) contracts for prison education, only 100 prisoners participated in a full Level 3 course (equivalent to ‘A’ level) in 2014/15, with none participating at Level 4 which is equivalent to first-year undergraduate or above (MoJ, Unlocking Potential, 2016). Recognition of the importance of education in prisons appears to have been lost (Coates, 2016)....
Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...skills that you've learned through your life and through your work and through your studies to help you make sense of all the information that you've got in front of you. And outside of academia, that's often imperfect information. You don't have the whole picture to enable you to do a perfect case study. You just have to do the best you can do with what you've got and...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Education & Development

Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability

...skills needed to live sustainably in the world...The pedagogies were: Learning through compassion Traditional wisdom as a sustainable pedagogy Participants discussed their understanding of compassion, and why compassion may be a useful idea for learning and thinking sustainably. Compassion is: [A word cloud of keywords and phrases from participants discussing their...
Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health

...studies were selected, and how they fit in with the aims of the course. He also describes how he became involved in the field of mental health education. This material forms part of The Open University course K225 Diverse perspectives on mental health... Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health A short introduction to this album. Mental Health on Orkney Service users and...
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...skills for business studies, Book 3, ‘Producing Influential Documents’, Milton Keynes, The Open University. Superdry (n.d.) Superdry [Online]. Available at http://www.superdry.com/ (Accessed 14 August 2013). White Stuff (2000) About Us [Online]. Available at http://www.whitestuff.com/ article-artlabout/ (Accessed 14 August 2013). (Adapted from text written by Open...
Airbus and Brexit: What do you need to know?
Money & Business

Airbus and Brexit: What do you need to know?

...skilled people to make them. These skills do not come cheap – and such a factory requires major investment. They really are the jewel in the crown for any airframe company and the French and German parts of Airbus have been interested in creating this capability locally. Not only this, but many of the parts in the state-of-the-art A350 wings are produced in Spain where...