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Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...introduction to business and management...Different types of business: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe different types businesses explain different ways of classifying businesses: by size, industry sector and ownership type apply these ideas to a real business through a video case study...Different types of business: 1...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...management project. Develop a vision for the change – if you don’t have a vision of what you would like to happen, it is unlikely that it ever will. You will also fail to convince others of the ‘big picture.’ Your vision may be a blended learning environment, or a fully digital school, either way it is important you are able to set this out from the outset....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Water supply and treatment in the UK
Science, Maths & Technology

Water supply and treatment in the UK

...management including the bodies representing the consumer, the environment, and the suppliers. The scope of the discussion ranges from wastage and emergency treatment to recycling and effluent control. In two bonus audio tracks, OU lecturer Dr Suresh Nesaratnam explains why the case studies were selected and gives an overview of the academic context in which water supply...
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Audio 52 mins
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...project ideas and consider how to go about carrying them out...Welcome to this free OpenLearn course, Understanding research with children and young people, which is an introduction to research with and by Children and young people. It is designed primarily for anyone with an interest in research with and by children and young people, including (but not limited to) those...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...project manager can tell you that you cannot simultaneously optimize for everything. A device, program or project that tries to do everything for every client in every situation is bound to make major compromises in terms of usability or capability. The same is true with optimizing all elements of a public policy or other complex undertakings like improving cyber security...
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Article 5 mins
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...Project. It was generated on 11 July 2015 and visualises connections between computers. The colours denote where the connections are: Blue: North America Green: Europe Purple: Latin America Red: Asia Pacific Orange: Africa White: the backbone of the internet: the most highly connected networks The world online [The World Online map as described in the text] Wherever you...
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Article 10 mins
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...project to help restore dirt to healthy soils on a vast scale. “This was absolute desert. A few years later the whole thing came back,” he says. “We saw birds, butterflies, insects – the whole ecosystem began to recover. Even after hundreds of years of complete devastation, the seeds were still in the ground and things began to happen very quickly. We did not...
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Article 20 mins
Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...projects led by women project managers’. Developing (as) a diverse team in equitable ways is an ongoing process. It is something which we need to pay attention to at every stage of a research project. We need to revisit and reflect on these issues of participation throughout. In many ways they begin before we begin and do not end when we end. Like all valuable...
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Article 15 mins