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Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change

...Project) and to scientific expertise for FAO. He has coordinated research projects on climate change and agriculture and currently leads a large European (FP7) project on livestock and climate change involving four continents. J-F Soussana has also chaired a national scientific committee on ‘Ecosystems and Sustainable Development’ for the French national research...
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Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...introduction to Bayesian statistics. Section 1 discusses several ways of estimating probabilities. Section 2 reviews ideas of conditional probabilities and introduces Bayes’ theorem and its use in updating beliefs about a proposition, when data are observed, or information becomes available. Section 3 introduces the main ideas of the Bayesian inference process. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...managing change projects. DAVE SNOWDEN Within the body of work we've got, there are three major frameworks. One is called flexuous curves, which is a variation of market lifecycle, which identifies when organisations can do things. The newest one, Estuarine mapping is coming sideways from quantum mechanics. And I'm really excited about that. That's a focus. But Cynefin is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...projects like High Speed 3 and Crossrail 2. I strongly support these investments and the National Infrastructure Commission which has been pushing them. But why must such infrastructure projects be financed just by sales of public land and other government assets? The fiscal target should be on balancing the books on current spending over the business cycle – just as it...
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What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...project for Europe at the beginning of the twenty-first century will be to manage the conflicts and diversity of modern Europe in ways that are equally successful in avoiding general warfare. Although significantly differentiated, much of the new Europe is also involved in a broad project of integration for which the main points of reference are to be found in the process...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Learning to Groove
History & The Arts

Learning to Groove

...project at The Open University explains how this informal type of music education is playing an important and alternative role. Jazz musician Gary Crosby and his partner Janine Irons share their story of how they set up the band and why they feel so passionate about giving opportunities to inner city children to learn how to play jazz and to guide them on their way to...
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Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...project management experience, social media tools, those are the skills that allow you to do specific functions of your role, ok? Soft skills are broader attributes; leadership, communication, time management, organisation, collaboration, team work, critical thinking. Soft skills influence how you do your work, and your upside in value because, to me, if you have really...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding Fitness to Practise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Fitness to Practise

...project involved input from members of the public, regulators, professionals, employers, lawyers and the public. Its aim was to find out about public experiences of the Fitness to Practise process and what regulators can do to improve it. As part of the project, the OpenLearn course Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses' experiences of Fitness to Practise...
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