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From Zero Day to Doomsday – Public Lecture
Digital & Computing

From Zero Day to Doomsday – Public Lecture

...introduction to robotics, playful computer programming, and the internet of things. Most recently he has been writing about aspects of computer security from malicious software to cybercrime and cyberwar. Mike’s lecture is inspired by his teaching for the OU Module TM112 Introduction to computing and information technology, which will run from April October 2018. In...
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Effective approaches to mentoring: what works and why?
Education & Development

Effective approaches to mentoring: what works and why?

...project investigating effective mentoring approaches of student teachers...In the session, participants were engaged and represented a range of backgrounds in mentoring (both within Initial Teacher Education and beyond). The project’s findings showed that a range of approaches to mentoring of student teachers are needed in order to be effective and that these need to be...
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United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...projects; artist Alex Wilde, who is now the Chair of the Trust, and Dr Heather Lynch who played a key role in enabling these women and others from the community to get back into the building in 2012 and helped establish a community Wellbeing Programme which has become the flagship project for the Trust. Looking Ahead Looking back from the vantage point of mid-2022, it is...
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Tell us how you learn online
Education & Development

Tell us how you learn online

...project that's keen to discover how people learn online in 2016 - to shape how we all learn in the future. If you've got a couple of minutes, you could help them by sharing your thoughts...We invite you to complete a short questionnaire to help us identify needs, gaps and reasons for learners, businesses and universities to boost their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)...
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Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...introduction to this album. Ghana: Introduction to Kente weaving A short history of the tradition of the Kente weavers in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Nana Asante Fremprong, a local businessman and master weaver, describes the method and skills involved in the process and how it's been updated without the loss of traditional values Ghana: Who are the Kente weavers? A look...
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Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...project management. Then I went to join Rolls Royce, and in particular I was working in the stress office, which was involved in the design of gas turbine rotating components. And I was exposed to the challenges of high technology in terms of materials and operational performance of safety-critical components in aero engines – for example, looking at the failure of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...Introduction - Trust has become an important topic in today’s business environment. Understanding trust from both an organisational and individual perspective will help you to develop as a leader within your organisation and can impact on the bottom line. Improving levels of trust in the workplace has become increasingly recognised as key to long-term organisational...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...projects you have to do. So I've done retail banking, investment banking, asset management, hedge funds, wealth managers. I didn't do insurance because insurance regulation is very, very different. So that skill set doesn't really translate very well. But across the, what we call, the capital markets, that being investment banks, and the retail markets being your high...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs