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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
Business Bursts: Marketing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Marketing

...let’s say Mercedes Benz has. So everything about the message being sent out was wrong. So people just didn’t buy Rover cars because the product didn’t reflect what they thought it was, which is why Rover went bankrupt. 3’50” Get your marketing right Get your message clear with The Open University's course An introduction to retail management and marketing...
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Video 5 mins
Community Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Community Social Care

...introduction to this album. Segregated schooling for sight impaired young people Peter White, BBC disability affairs correspondent, revisits the school for visually impaired young people he attended when he was growing up. Mainstream schooling for sight impaired young people Peter White meet two sight impaired students who attend a mainstream school in the Midlands. From...
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Audio 2 hrs 32 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
Grad, Div and Curl
Science, Maths & Technology

Grad, Div and Curl

...introduction to this album. Grad Introduction to this gradient vector. What is meant by 'steepness of a path' on a hillside. Div Introduction to the divergence div. Heat flow and temperature distribution inside a modern nuclear reactor. Curl Introduction to this vector operation through the context of modelling water flow in a river. How curl helps in predicting storms....
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Audio 26 mins
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
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
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