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How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...variables, or dimensions. These variables are time, space and culture, although other authors also refer to the third variable as organisation. Thinking about these three variables as dimensions enables us to draw the diagram shown in Figure 2. [The space, time and culture classification of virtual teams] (Adapted from Kimble et al., 2000) Figure 2 The space, time and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...class and nationality? In each case we must relate our answers to these questions directly to our wider course themes: to uncertainty and diversity; to structure and agency; and to knowledge and knowing. Visual images are examples of evidence that forms part of the circuit of knowledge and supports the claims made by social scientists. Such evidence is part of the whole...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...class in a primary school (this is often described as a ‘case-study’), researchers study all classes in a school and consider in the analysis differences between students such as age, background, learning abilities, teachers’ approach and expertise. Also, some methodologies such as correlation studies tend to be interpreted in the incorrect way. Below is an example...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...class shape the ways in which ‘the personal’ is interpreted in the development of social policies, and how these policies might work to ‘remake’ those facets of the personal lives of welfare subjects. Addressing these questions, the issues they raise, and the theoretical frameworks they invoke, are the central aims of this course. Where the articulation of welfare...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga

...de Souza. However, the treaty was short-lived and Nzinga escaped with her people further west, where they founded a new state at Matamba. In alliance with former rival states Nzinga led an army against the Portuguese, initiating a thirty year war. She achieved victory in 1647, aided by the Dutch, and encouraged rebellion within Ndongo, which was now governed through a...
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Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympics 2021: The story of how a small Shropshire town influenced the modern Olympic movement

...de Coubertin who revived the modern Olympic Games there were in fact many Olympic events taking place throughout Europe before Coubertin was even born. One of these, set in the small Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, has been widely considered by sports historians as one of the key influences on the modern Olympics, and even delegates for the Tokyo 2020’s organising...
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A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015

...de thríocha bliain i ndiaidh sin, sa dóigh gur bheartaigh mé féin agus an Dr Seosamh Watson tionscnamh a bhunú le hiarracht a dhéanamh moill a chur ar an chreimeadh teanga. I 1984, nuair a thosaigh Oideas Gael, thiocfadh linn siúl trasna an bhealaigh go Tigh Bhiddy agus gan ach Gaeilge a chluinstin ón fhoireann agus ón chuideachta ann. Sa lá inniu (2015) tá an...
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Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...de la Serre to develop his Ecriture Nocturne (night reading) system. Barbier used a 6x6 grid with raised dots to represent the letters (and some common pairs of letters) of the French alphabet. [Barbier's sonography ('night writing')] Sonography In 1821 Barbier demonstrated his system at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (Royal Institute for Blind Youth) in Paris...
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Article 10 mins