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Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...concept that learning could be applied to the running of public affairs. It was a city famous for its financial and political shrewdness and its exceptional craft skills. These factors gave the people of Florence a renewed confidence and belief in their city. The famous banking family, the Medicis, seized power in 1434, marking the beginning fifty year rule. With their...
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Article 30 mins
What is a virus?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a virus?

...concept is known as herd immunity. The proportion of the population that needs to be immune to infection in order to achieve herd immunity depends on several factors. A critical factor is the amount of contact between people since that can be how virus particles can spread. In a freely-mixing population, herd immunity depends on the number of people that, on average,...
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Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...concept of ‘customers’ and who customers are in different work contexts. The financial information reading and activity cover the idea of financial stakeholders and their interests in an organisation. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from an Open University course B629 Marketing and finance...Stakeholders in marketing and finance: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...concepts and legal jargon. For example, an LLM may be able to provide you with an overview of the likely questions a lawyer may ask during a consultation, or explain the process for being onboarded as a client by a law firm in more general terms. You should always check the output of any LLM thoroughly for errors, mistakes and incomplete information. Where possible, you...
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Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...concept was developed in the 1940s by American psychologist Carl Rogers as part of his client-centred therapy and continues to be utilised today in a range of caring and psychoanalytical settings and services (Rogers and Farson, 2015). [A dog with one ear up.] Effective active listening in an educational context requires the educator to be fully attentive to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...concepts lead to competing products with particular sets of advantages and disadvantages. Before a company launches a new product they need to be sure that the product will appeal to customers and can be produced at the right cost. In this section we will look at how companies make sure they have a product they can produce. Moving from concept to production depends...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...conception of a systems practitioner as there might be for, say, a computer engineer or a professional health worker (in both cases there will be specialists as well as generalists). While there are several national and international bodies supporting systems thinking research such as the International Federation for Systems Research, the nearest practitioner example is...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...concepts, you start speaking two languages simultaneously, each enhancing the other. So you have the eye, and then you drop in the concepts. And that whole thing-- it's two languages both working at the same time. So we can use this new kind of language, if you like, to alter our perspective or change our views. Let me ask you a simple question with a really simple...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs