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A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...Open University courses EXC224 Making your coaching certificate count and EXF224 Making your exercise instruction certificate count...A question of ethics: right or wrong?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain why and how sport and fitness professionals are required to work within the codes of conduct set by the relevant...
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...Open University course A275 Reading Classical Greek: language and literature...Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain why Greek and Latin are referred to as classical languages understand some of the distinctive features of Greek and Latin and some features they share in common with other...
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...sources, that Doncaster is the Danum of Antoninus and the Dona Ceaster of the Saxons, and that it is not only on the line of the Northeastern Railway, but also on that famous Watling Street which from the earliest Saxon time has crossed the British continent from sea to sea, and seems to impress most of the cities north and south into a conformity with its line, like a...
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...source of compliant and cheaper help. The robots already in production, Belpaeme tells me, are principally geared to monitoring the elderly and infirm, or providing companionship while, as yet, performing only the most straightforward of physical tasks. Wait… companionship? “Yes,” says Belpaeme, deadpan, “Of course it would be better to have companionship from...
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images/Tables Course Image: © sabirmallick/Getty Images Figure 1: sodabottle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mangulam_inscription.jpg https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en Figure 2: planeMad/Wikimedia https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 2.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/...
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Images Course image: Adapted from http://accocladecommunications.wordpress.com Figure 1: © Meriel Jane...
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...Open University course BB845 Strategic human resource management...Employee engagement: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify and describe the meaning of employee engagement and its different components appreciate the strategic issues associated with employee engagement describe the changes in systems of employee relations...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...open and honest, particularly around decision-making. As I said previously, I'm a constable and human being. And it's acknowledging that at times we can get things wrong. But it's being able to learn from any mistakes that we have, being able to step up and say, I bet I could do that a different way. I maybe done that wrong this time, and acknowledging that, but also...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs