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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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Activity 10 mins
Screen adjustments
Digital & Computing

Screen adjustments

...simple as reducing the brightness of your screen can have a big impact on the amount of strain you put on your eyes. You can do this easily by searching the settings of your laptop or device. Alternatively, you can download software (sometimes it’s free!) which can be installed on your computer to change the temperature of your screen brightness. For example, by warming...
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Article 5 mins
Dictation and voice control
Digital & Computing

Dictation and voice control

...simple commands. For example, you can say ‘Tap ’ and it will tap the button or item you have just said. The same works for mouse actions if you say ‘Click ’. To move the mouse pointer up say, ‘Move Mouse Up’ (or left, right or down). To click say ‘Click’. If you know the name of any control or button, you can say ‘Click’ (or...
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Article 5 mins
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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Article 15 mins
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...codes, the basic ethical principles remain the same. In the next activity, you will think about how these ethical principles can be applied to the research you will carry out in your project. Activity 2 Ethical principles on research projects Timing: You should allow yourself 25 minutes to do this activity. a.Watch the following video where Helen Kara outlines the basic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’. What are your personal experiences with contraception? Open This is an open question. It invites interviewees to speak about their experiences. What sort of things do you consider when choosing a contraceptive method? Open This is an open question. It invites interviewees to speak about what is important to them when making a decision about...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...simple mathematical manipulation of a few numbers. You are already using, or want to learn how to use, some systems-based approach to working with the situation in which you are interested. You are aware of how a systems approach differs from other approaches commonly used in scientific analysis, sociology or business management. In order to get the most out of this...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs