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Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...business management. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Understanding operations management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define ‘operations’ and ‘operations management’ identify the roles and
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...business ed executive). Tra Roma e Milano c’è un Frecciarossa ogni ora, dalle 6 di mattina alle 7 di sera. I Frecciargento viaggiano a 250 km orari, collegano principalmente Roma con le città del Sud (come Bari) e le città del Nord-Est (come Venezia), ma si fermano in alcune stazioni intermedie. Hanno due classi (prima e seconda) e una carrozza bar. Tra Roma e...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...busy in their classrooms, ‘leading’ their pupils and making decisions about their learning, well-being and behaviour, the principal or head teacher is elsewhere, making sure that the school is properly managed overall. While they might check in from time to time, they cannot and should not be in every classroom, managing and controlling the activities of the teachers....
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...business: A normal day for me starts at nine after dropping the children off at school. I’ll already have checked my emails earlier in the morning so I usually know if anything urgent is waiting for me. My deadlines are often quite short – 24 or 48 hours. If possible I translate, sleep on it and review the next day, so I’ll start by reviewing anything I’ve done...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...businesses that generate profits, these businesses are specifically set up to fulfil social or environmental goals. This mixture makes it difficult to say which economic sector would be their natural home. Activity 2 Looking at social enterprise Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes Watch this promotional video about social enterprise and answer the following questions:...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...Business School. Week 2...Week 3: Writing university assignments: Introduction - This week you will start to look at university writing, a very important student activity. You will first consider which aspects of your current writing will be useful when it comes to university-level writing and which might need a bit more work. Then you will move on to look at university...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...Businesses, some businesses and cities and other non-governmental organisations – there’s quite a broad range of actors. Much broader and, probably, deeper than there was at the time of Copenhagen, would you agree? BM: Yeah, I think that’s probably true. I mean, there were a lot of different civil society people at Copenhagen. The difference is there’s now a kind...
What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?

...busy doing science to transmit data to Earth. During that time we had to content ourselves with the few “taster” images that were beamed back immediately after it passed Pluto. However the probe has now begun the year-long process of transmitting its vast haul of fly-by data, including images that are crisper and more reliable because they preserve original details...