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Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...busy. I usually just pop over to my laptop when I have the time and inclination.’ And that sums up OpenLearn perfectly! Charity explained that the ability to “dip in and out”, working at her own pace as and when she can, is a massive bonus, and being able to use OpenLearn to supplement her studies has helped too. ‘I was working on a unit on Plato, which isn’t...
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Esports: an introduction to the industry
Science, Maths & Technology

Esports: an introduction to the industry

...Business of Esports CPD qualification by heading over to CPD Competition. Esports refers to competitive, organised video gaming. Players, either individually or in teams, compete against each other at local, national and international tournaments. Unlike casual gaming, which is done mainly for personal enjoyment, esports is structured more like traditional sports – with...
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Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year

...business circles. If you want to be very clever and say ‘Happy Year of the Dragon’, you need to say 龙年快乐 (lóng nián kuà lè). Check out the audio flip cards below to hear the correct pronounciations. @@PLUGINFILE@@/dialog-cards-579-1475427%20%283%29.h5p If you wish to learn more about Chinese culture and study Mandarin Chinese, visit this page where you can...
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Relationships at work
Money & Business

Relationships at work

...Business Review examines this finding in its article “Why You Spend More Hours at Work When Your Relationship Is Going Well”. If you are to engage in office romance then it is important to do so responsibly. While many experts and organisations advise against inter-workplace relationships, they are possible. Indeed, it is impossible to predict who you will be...
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Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...business as usual of animal-product consumption in the face of a compassionate alternative but also of casual sexist tropes. The man, like a clichéd 1970s sitcom character, is engrossed in his manly pleasure of consuming flesh in front of the television while his partner pesters him about moral improvement; it’s his capacity to eat flesh and simultaneously ignore a...
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Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...business information, including client or customer data, and other personal data could be used to train and improve an LLM and be subsequently incorporated into future training data sets. As stated above, terms and conditions for each GenAI service can vary depending on the service provider. Some terms and conditions state that, by default, all content inputted by users...
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Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...activities into similar sorts of methodological frameworks as those used for business planning or IT systems design. Successful provision of training and development thereby sits alongside other key functions in business planning, and stakeholders are encouraged to focus on the following key issues: the importance of articulating the desired outcomes from the training – that is, how will you know ......
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...business prosperity which is entirely without equal in the pages of trade history. (Sutliff, 1901) The rise of information and communication technologies (ICT) – that is, computers, software, telecommunications and the internet – and the large impact that these new technologies are having on the way that society functions, have prompted many to claim that we have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs