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Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...statistics vary markedly between the three stages of the engagement life cycle. The young and promiscuous (aged 18-24) demonstrate the lowest levels of engagement (48 per cent), motivation (65 per cent), job satisfaction (59 per cent) and commitment (60 per cent). This is not surprising when you consider that this group has grown up in a period where it is not unusual to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...statistics, definitions Academic journals The most specialised and up-to-date research, theories and debates in your subject area, written by academics Newspapers and magazines Up-to-date developments, current issues and events, written by journalists Specialist organisations’ websites Online specialist information on a topic Academic books Key principles, facts and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...statistics and one which commonly arises in the study of data, especially in nature...Week 1: Chance and chaos: 2 Chaos - When rolling a die, you don’t know in advance how the die is going to land. You simply roll the die and hope for the best. As you’ve seen though, when you roll two or more dice, some outcomes are more likely than others. But what if we could...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...statistics was that 48% told us they were dismissed or ignored when they tried to talk about climate change. That we could do something about this afternoon. That we could do something about today. IMMIE In places like school, I feel that they don’t really listen and don’t respect the fact that I’ve thought about it and tried to educate myself about it. I kind of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...statistics are a stark reminder of how male dominated the world of classical music is. [Described image] This week, you will reflect on how we got into this situation, including the historical exclusion of women composers from the classical music canon and music education, issues accessing scores of their compositions, and financial nervousness around programming works...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...Statistics at The Open University, discusses how he interprets science as it is reported on radio news bulletins. You do not need to make any notes on this interview, unless you particularly want to. It's not explored in this short clip, but Kevin has developed a 12-point checklist for evaluating science news on the radio. You will have a chance to read this checklist...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...statistical information which at some point will have been constructed through contact with consumers, producers and government officials. The point of econometrics is to develop a big picture of the economy and to make predictions about what will happen if the present situation continues or when some of the relationships change. Like all other kinds of social scientific...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...statistics called redshift space distortions (RSD). [Described image] Figure 6 The measured constraints on an evolving dark energy equation of state. The 2018 Planck data (blue shaded regions) are further constrained by BAO and SNe measurements (cyan shading) and by BAO, RSD and weak lensing (WL) measurements (red shading). Darker and lighter shading within each data set...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs