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Can you manage a supply chain?
Money & Business

Can you manage a supply chain?

...simple - keep your supply chain costs as low as possible and your customers happy. An introduction to the Supply Chain game Dr Paul Walley of The Open University provides the story behind the game in a short video below. Transcript DR PAUL WALLEY Many years ago a professor from MIT in the United States developed a classroom game that simulated coordination across the...
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Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?

...simple terms resilience is: “The ability to use personal qualities to withstand pressure.” (Fletcher & Sarkar, 2016, p. 136). When discussing resilience in the sporting context the terms ‘stressor’ – referring to the demands placed on the athletes, such as in training and competition, and ‘adversity’ referring to a personal (such as bereavement) or...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...simple. Now at a much more multicultural school in Buckinghamshire, I had plenty of multicoloured labels on my seating plans to designate the Department for Education’s ‘targeted groups;’ English as an Additional Language, Pupil Premium, Special Educational Needs, School Action. All of which categorically avoided identifying Black and brown students and the need to...
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How Bitcoin works
Digital & Computing

How Bitcoin works

...simple. You need to download one of many special ‘wallet’ applications available for most computers and smartphones. You must then create a Bitcoin account, your wallet application will then generate a pair of public encryption keys – one private (known only to you) and one public (copies of which will be shared with other Bitcoin users). You are then ready to go....
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Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...simple terms, change is the process by which something becomes different. It is an inevitable part of life, whether it is a change in a job (moving to a new job, changing to a new computer operating system, moving to a new desk), a change in a relationship (new partner or colleague, death of a family member) or a change in life circumstances (retirement, redundancy, birth...
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Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...simple container of shower gel has required, if you think about it, interactions among lots of people engaged in an enormous range of activities. Activity 1 (exploratory) The soap used in a shower gel is usually made by reacting a fat (often a vegetable oil) with an alkali (a generic name for a type of chemical). In three minutes, write down as many
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...simple story anyway cannot hold. For London is one of those places in which capitalist globalisation, with its deregulation, privatisation, 'liberalisation', is produced. Here we have also 'the local production of the global'. And yet a celebration of multiculturalism and a politics of anti-racism exist alongside a persistent obliviousness on the part of the majority of...
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Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...simple evaluations that can be done directly with or without an electronic calculator. Others need a line or two of algebraic analysis. Yet others are too tedious or too complicated to tackle without a computer-based approach using spreadsheets or more sophisticated software. In the end, the best motivation for learning comes from simply requiring the knowledge in order...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs