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Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...management) and explore some advice that might help you balance between life, study and other potential demands on your time. Before you read on, why not take a look at these easy time management tips and reflect on which of these you do at the moment and where you could do more. Making time [Time management] There is no getting away from the fact that life can be very...
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Article 10 mins
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...management: Introduction - Good decision-making relies on having the right information presented in the right way. That information comes as data that we obtain either through extraction from existing records or newly collected information that we have gathered for the purpose of decision-making. This makes data analysis one important skill when decision-making. In this...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...Introduction - The second week of Managing my investments explores the range of mainstream savings and investment products available to the personal investor. You’ll also examine new types of investments like peer-to-peer lending and crowd funding. Begin by watching the video, to hear Martin Upton introduce this week’s topics. MARTIN UPTON Hello again, I’m Martin...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...manage your personal finances: managing budgets, debts, investments, property purchase, pensions and insurance...Gain the skills to manage your personal finances: managing budgets, debts, investments, property purchase, pensions and insurance. With real incomes falling and personal debt at a record high, there has never been a better time to improve your personal...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why do a project as part of your study?
Education & Development

Why do a project as part of your study?

...project. Project planning and management skills are essential: Whatever your goals are, experiencing the process of planning, conducting, and reporting on a large project will help you. Project management skills are a key learning outcome. These skills are required for professional or managerial jobs, and they can also help you get through any large......
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Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...project set out to explore how the flipped classroom methodology, that shifts the responsibility for learning strategies and, ultimately, the content of learning to the learner, can be applied to language modules at the Open University (OU). Distance learning at the OU already has much in common with the ‘Flipped Classroom’ methodology. The learning resources...
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Introduction to algebra
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to algebra

...introduction to algebra which builds on the idea of using letters to represent numbers. Section 1 looks at finding, simplifying and using formulas and includes useful tips on learning algebra. Section 2 introduces some of the terminology used in algebra and techniques such as evaluating and checking equivalence of expressions, identifying terms in an expression and...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Introduction to analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to analysis

...introduction to analysis which looks at real numbers and their properties, with a particular emphasis on inequalities. Section 1 starts by revising rational numbers and their decimal representations. Then, real numbers are introduced as infinite decimals. Section 2 looks at rules for manipulating inequalities and finding the solution set of an inequality. Section 3 looks...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs