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Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...course, Understanding operations management, will provide you with a basic framework for understanding this function, whether producing goods or services or in the private, public or voluntary sectors. In addition, this OpenLearn course discusses the role of operations managers and the importance of focusing on suppliers and customers...Operations management is one of the...
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...course, Understanding management: I'm managing thank you! provides you with a set of ideas for developing your approach to managing your own work what we might call self-management. In order to do this, we will examine some of the key processes of management decision making, such as allocating time, staff, physical and financial resources: prioritising and problem solving...
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...course, Understanding different research perspectives, explores the development of the research process looking at the different perspectives from which an issue or phenomenon can be investigated; and highlights the main methodologies that can be used to investigate a business issue. By looking at different perspectives/approaches to issues and phenomena, different...
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...course, Introduction to child psychology, you will be introduced to the discipline of child psychology and some of the key questions that guide the understanding of childhood. These questions include 'What influences children's development?' and 'How do psychologists study the physical and cognitive changes that occur during childhood?' As you work through this material,...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...course, Quantitative and qualitative research in finance, explores the underpinning methodologies, then looks at how research data are produced and how they are analysed. The course also includes case study interviews with active researchers and activities to help you understand data sources and sampling...What are the key features of qualitative and quantitative research...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...course, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM, provides a toolkit for conducting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) within Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). SoTL involves educators using their disciplinary knowledge to investigate a question about learning and teaching, gather evidence in a systematic way, submit their findings for...
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...course. Learn how computers work, how data is stored and deleted, and why online safety and data security matter while gaining a deeper understanding of how technology influences the way we live and think...This free course, Introducing computing and IT, provides a general overview of how digital technologies have come to dominate virtually every aspect of the modern...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...course, Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations, provides an opportunity for people who work within voluntary organisations, as paid employees or staff, to develop energetic, practical and thoughtful leadership practice...Welcome to the free course Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations. This course provides an opportunity for people...