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Online training support for businesses
Money & Business

Online training support for businesses

...social learning platform offering free flexible, distance learning content to support upskilling in industry. This new, innovative business learning hub enhances learning and development opportunities for SMEs across Northern Ireland by giving access to best practice learning on entrepreneurial leadership across three core themes: Leadership and management;
What is language?
Languages

What is language?

...social significance of our communicative abilities. Transcript If this piece has piqued your interest in the world of words, we have many language courses available for you to study. If you want to know more about the function and significance of language, we can particularly recommend the following courses: Or, if you’re looking for a course to develop your skills in a...
Origins of The Cold War
History & The Arts

Origins of The Cold War

...politics of blame during The Cold War Has there been too much emphasis on the superpowers? Western European integration How did all the stakeholders reconcile their competing agenda’s? Domestic concerns vs Foreign policy How did domestic issues help to shape the cold war? The Cold War on a local level The impact of the Cold War from a social and cultural perspective....
Ethics in real life
History & The Arts

Ethics in real life

...with The Open University's Derek Matravers. Plagiarism and copyright law Nigel Warburton explores with the author, Maureen Duffy, the ethics of plagiarism and copyright law. Business ethics Derek Matravers talks to The Open University's Anya Shaefer about business ethics, comparing the profit maximisation view of business with the corporate social responsibility model....
Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...social influence in which one person is able to enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task’ (Chemers, 2000, p. 27). Leadership is a process of influence leading to the achievement of desired purposes. Successful leaders develop a vision for their schools based on their personal and professional values. They articulate this vision at...
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...social situations and technology impact musical performance...Music is created to be performed, in most cases for an audience, whether in a concert hall, at a street fair or through a radio. But how those listeners receive a piece or style of music influences future music production. This free course, Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective, explores how audience...
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...Social Responsibility – all the vogue now; do businesses really have an obligation – as opposed to a profit motive - to care about the environment, the communities in which they operate, and so on? Questions to which Alex Oliver should know the answers: he runs The Forum for Philosophy in Business at Cambridge University. Audio Text David Edmonds: This is Ethics...
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...social, developmental, biological and individual differences...Critically exploring psychology: 1.1 Cognitive psychology - Cognitive psychology is an approach to human thinking that has been inspired by the development of computers in the 20th century. The British mathematician Alan Turing was responsible for the argument that if machines perform in ways which are...