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Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences qualifications. Background Women have frequently faced struggles to enter the workplace in roles considered traditionally male. Women’s workplace roles were often those associated with caregiving, such as nursing or teaching. This is because certain jobs were labelled and allocated according to gender and...
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Innovation in health and social care practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care practice

...out for and mitigating against the negative effects of digital and technological change. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K102 Introducing health and social care...Innovation in health and social care practice: References - Fairbrother, P., Ure, J., Hanley, J., McCloughan, L., Denvir, M., Sheikh, A. and McKinstry, B. on behalf of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...out across the country, the language slowly developed. Yet it was not until the ninth century that the term ‘English’ began to be regularly used to refer to the language (Crystal, 2005, p. 27). English did not become ‘English’ until at least four centuries into its existence. During this early period of its history, English was just one of many languages spoken on...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...level of security that is appropriate and at a cost that is acceptable, it must carry out a detailed risk assessment to determine the nature and extent of existing and potential threats. Countermeasures to the perceived threats must balance the degree of security to be achieved with their acceptability to system users and the value of the data systems to be protected. Activity 1 Think of an organisation you know and the ......
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...out textual analysis recognise some of the historical contexts of the play...John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi: Background - John Webster (c.1580–c.1634) was Shakespeare’s contemporary, though sixteen years younger. He makes a brief appearance in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love as a boy who tortures mice, spies on Shakespeare’s love-making, and feels inspired to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...out of being a manager while also striving to engage with some of the very positive aspects of leadership. Activity 2 Leadership and management in policing with the community Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes Considering the descriptions of leadership and management given earlier in this section, which aspects of both do you think are most relevant for successful...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...out the pattern and respond accordingly. When you receive their response, you may think your friend understands Mandarin, but in reality, they are just following a set of rules without understanding the language. This test is intended to show that knowledge and intelligence are two very different things. When it comes to AI, a machine may not know Mandarin, but it knows...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?
History & The Arts

Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?

...out in a specific manner. They can be targeted at specific areas or problems that direct subsidies are only so good at accomplishing. They can focus on specific skills, ages, genders and regions. Once a problem is identified, an indirect subsidy can be created and applied quickly. In Japan’s case, work was going abroad and young animators were getting neither the...
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