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Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...energy and a critical edge to leadership practice. History is usually told through the eyes of the powerful, those who amass the greatest economic and cultural power, and there is no greater example of this than the ways in which official history has been warped to normalise – or forget – the horrors and legacies of colonial rule globally. [Described image] Figure 1...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...energy (electricity and gas)?’, I seem to run into all four of the information constraints March refers to, just because I make a wide range of choices in this area. I have many electrical appliances (fridge, cooker, television, etc.), and both electric and gas heating, so deciding what and how to change, to reduce my overall use of energy, is a fairly complex...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...energy prices and exacerbated by the rising cost of other essentials has made it even more important to take a tight grip of your personal finances. This course will enable you do that. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge – this, together with the OpenLearn statement of participation, constitute the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines’. (UK RED: 15976) Only two years after writing this letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning would have her first work of poetry published. Finally, her childhood reading reveals the paucity of previous women poets as role models. While 15 of the 50 books in the search results are by women, only one volume...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...energy. They lose their – their drive – their ability to carry these things forward. The plant was unionised so certainly conditions in the plant, inside the plant did appear to – did appear to improve until last December 2010 when just before Christmas two workers were killed inside the plant. The spotlight went back on to the plant and it was closed down...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...energy and critical engagement on issues that are made to matter. The important thing to notice here is the clear tension between this idea of leadership offering direction but also the need to bring people with you in leadership practice. Practising collaborative leadership always involves engaging with the contradiction between the need to give people direction and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...energy is available for growth and reproduction. The benefits of a large brain are very significant. For example, the elaborate social behaviour of primates is seen by many biologists to be as much a defining feature of primates as the types of anatomical feature just listed. While monkeys and apes (and ourselves) may be the most familiar primates, they are far from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...energy reserve). A distinctive feature of bacteria, when viewed at either high or low magnification, is their surface. At high magnification, it can be seen that there are several distinct components to the structure that surrounds the bacterium. Like all other cells, bacterial cells are surrounded by a cell membrane, which is the innermost of these components. Most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs