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Boost your Business, Computing and IT Skills
Digital & Computing

Boost your Business, Computing and IT Skills

...management, computing and IT courses from The Open University address the UK’s skills shortage and will open doors to better opportunities...Update your IT and Computing Skills Skilled IT professionals are very much in demand and Computing and IT is a rapidly growing sector of employment. Gain more digital skills with our free courses. Find out more about Computing and...
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Article 5 mins
Systems explained by Peter Checkland
Money & Business

Systems explained by Peter Checkland

...management education led him to develop his theories...Systems Thinking has been described as multi-disciplinary and is associated with a well established academic and practitioner community. It arose out of necessity. As society has become increasingly connected and the interactions between peoples have increased, traditional ways of operating have no longer sufficed....
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Audio 15 mins
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...management. You will explore: the relationships between management and leadership; the scope of the field; different world views that underpin educational leadership research and practice; and some key concepts such as agency, power and authority and context. You will consider some differences between concepts, models and theories and be introduced to some questions that...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Climate Change Collection
Nature & Environment

Climate Change Collection

...introduction to the issues surrounding climate change. OpenLearn contains many more articles on environmental issues. You can navigate the site by subject area or by searching for key words in the search bar. Notes to teachers All OpenLearn courses can be downloaded as documents (PDF, Word, ePub, Kindle) by clicking into the course and going approximately half-way down...
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Video 5 mins
David Hume: 18th Century Philosopher
History & The Arts

David Hume: 18th Century Philosopher

...introduction Nigel Warburton talks about David Hume. Hume's theory of the self Nigel Warburton talks to Simon Blackburn about David Hume's theory of the self. Hume's discussion of the argument from design Timothy Chappell and Peter Kail discuss Hume on design. Hume's argument against miracles Peter Kail and Timothy Chappell discuss Hume's argument against miracles. Hume's...
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Audio 42 mins
Music Printing
History & The Arts

Music Printing

...introduction to this album Letter Press Technology Early music printing. The technological problems and solutions involved in making a complete line of music. Letter Press: an example A close inspection of Plantin's book shows how it all fits together on the page. The Halstan Press A printing expert takes us through the Halston process and explains how every piece of...
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Audio 28 mins
The physical world: collisions
Science, Maths & Technology

The physical world: collisions

...introduction to this album Accident investigation At the scene of a vehicle collision, both the physical evidence and the laws of physics, help police establish precisely what happened Particle collisions Professors Frank Close and Tejinder Virdee explain why physicists smash particles together and what happens in a particle collision The Large Hadron Collider The biggest...
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Audio 17 mins
Exploring the science of climate
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the science of climate

...introduction to this album. 18th century weather observers The Mannheim group of amateur scientists starts to systematically gather data about the weather. Records of global climate What scientific and natural records reveal about global climate over the last 150 years. Climatic evidence from sediments What sediment cores from the world's oceans reveal about climate...
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Audio 25 mins