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Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...et al., 1990) which developed from the highly successful Toyota Production System. It focuses on the elimination of all forms of waste from a production system. A focus on driving inventory levels down also exposes inefficiencies, reduces costs and cuts lead times. Mass customisation (Pine et al., 1993) which seeks to combine high volume, as in mass production, with...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...et al., 2012) drawn from an OU MBA course on ‘Sustainable creative management’. DIALECTICAL APPROACHES These techniques use creative conflict within the decision-making process to help identify and challenge assumptions and create new perceptions. The devil’s advocate approach can expose underlying assumptions, but tends to emphasise the negative. Dialectical...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...mode of procedure. Video 2 The heuristic shows a practitioner engaging with situation S through the combined use of a framework of ideas F and a method, M. It comprises a person (ii) thinking about a real-world situation in which a person or practitioner P (i) – who may be the same as the person who is thinking – engages with a situation S. You came to this course...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...et al. (2016), offers some good reasons for making sure young children have the opportunity for outdoor play time. Health and physical development: in recent years, childhood obesity rates around the world have increased. To combat this many countries are recommending outdoor activity for all children. Physical play outdoors provides important opportunities for the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...et cetera. But the point is, these discourses explain the changing relationships over time within these communities, and the way they got established and the way they are sustained. And the final thing I'd like to say is that all of this question of the power relationships leads us on to the ability to mobilise resources and to act politically. And it should never be...
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Audio 10 mins
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...et al. (2008, p.5) define mental health and wellness as the absence of mental illness, such as depression, and the ability to cope with daily challenges in a positive, optimistic and constructive manner. Using this definition there are potentially two ways in which exercise can benefit mental health. First, exercise can prevent or reduce the extent of mental illnesses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...et al., 1999, p. 153). The saturnine humour is melancholia, suffered most in the evening when the planet Saturn is in the sky. It was particularly associated with creative individuals such as poets and painters. Melancholia was certainly associated with artists at Caravaggio's time (Wittkower, 1961, pp. 293–4): Cardanus in 1561 described painters as ‘fickle, of...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Cefnogi datblygiad plant
Education & Development

Cefnogi datblygiad plant

...et al. (2008) rhwng cyfnodau pontio llorweddol a fertigol drwy eu cysylltu â gweithgareddau penodol. Mae cyfnodau pontio llorweddol yn digwydd bob dydd neu'n rheolaidd, ac, fel arfer, maent yn cyfeirio at symud neu newid mewn trefn. Mae cyfnodau pontio llorweddol yn disgrifio gweithgareddau fel plant yn mynd o'r ystafell ddosbarth i'r iard chwarae (symud) neu'n cymryd...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs