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Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...out the different dimensions of quality and the broad aims of healthcare improvement. The course will help you better understand how and why we seek to improve healthcare quality...This free course, Introducing healthcare improvement, explores quality improvement in healthcare settings. It begins by defining healthcare quality and describing the meaning of quality...
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...joint Korean team to the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, though it has never panned out. For athletes from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), it is an opportunity to represent the country in front of an international audience in spite of the intense pressure of expectations from home. Claiming that Hong will face the firing squad or a life of hard labour for her selfie with Lee Eun-ju ignores the fact that......
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...out how within the areas of composing and performing there are many ways in which musical understanding might be demonstrated, often related to the musical tradition or style within which the performing and composing takes place. For example, whereas the classical music tradition sets much store by the capacity to use notation, in the majority of the world’s music the...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...out a range of questions and debates that are relevant to social researchers. As societies change and social problems are redefined, the social sciences have to respond to be effective. Now, with these issues in mind, let's turn to the structure of this course. Following this introduction, there are three sections: Section 2 deals with the challenges facing social...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...out more, explore this OpenLearn article, which includes a video explaining what you can expect to learn....Introducing global development: Introduction - Development is about change that is a result of human activity, and such change has happened throughout human existence. In this course, you will first examine a particular framing of change processes − that...
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...out by people within companies, often hidden behind complex systems and professional reputations. This course explores how fraud, insider dealing, bribery, money laundering, and other types of corporate wrongdoing occur. It also outlines what legal measures exist to prevent and respond to them. You’ll learn about different forms of financial and organisational crime,...
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...out. JESS I use the internet a lot. I have a Facebook. I rely on emails for everything. Facebook, which is obviously for friends, I use that a lot for work. I know that I've got jobs in the past that I wouldn't have got without a Facebook. I don't own a television, so if I watch anything, that's online. Keeping in touch with friends is almost exclusively online, I'd say....
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...out more on courses from this series on the Community engagement and policing page....Capacity and demand management: Introduction - Good decision-making relies on having the right information presented in the right way. That information comes as data that we obtain either through extraction from existing records or newly collected information that we have gathered for...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs