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Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...adapted extract from the Open University course LGXI002 Beginners Italian 2: in cammino...Week 2: Talking about the time (continued): Next steps - We hope that you’ll continue your Italian studies with The Open University on our Beginners Italian courses: Beginners Italian 1: primi passi Beginners Italian 2: in cammino Beginners Italian 3: stai andando bene! Or continue...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...adapt this to describe a personal brand as follows: ‘Your brand is a perception or emotion, maintained by somebody other than you, that describes the total experience of having a relationship with you.’ They explain: ‘Your brand is a reflection of who you are and what you believe, which is visibly expressed by what you do and how you do it. It’s the doing part...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...adapt your use of the most popular social media apps in ways that enhance your educational experiences understand some of the risks of engaging with some of the most popular social media during your Higher Education...Session 3: The most popular social platforms in Higher Education: 1 Introducing Facebook - Facebook is is in fact more than just an app. At the time of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...adapted from Muncie, 2004 and Brisman et al., 2017)...Critical criminology and the social sciences: 2.4 Sonae: an archetypal case study for critical criminologists - In this section, you will watch a video that explores some of the harms associated with a factory producing wood particle boards in Kirkby, near Liverpool (England), between 1999 and 2012. The film presents...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...adapting to and meeting the needs of customers across national and cultural contexts? Is there an attempt to create a “global” customer? [Toy people on a map of Europe] No. A decade ago the prevailing view was that, for example, Europe would homogenise into one group of consumers all wearing Levi’s and Nike, drinking Coca-Cola and watching MTV or Sky. Yet it...
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Disraeli on Munich
History & The Arts

Disraeli on Munich

...adaptation, yet very effective. The delicate detail of ornament contrasted admirably with the broad fronts and noble façades which they adorned. A church with two very lofty towers of white marble, with their fretted cones relieved with cerulean blue, gleamed in the sun; and near it was a pile not dissimilar to the ducal palace at Venice, but of nobler and more beautiful...
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Article 5 mins
Life-changing scholarships and bursaries at The Open University
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Life-changing scholarships and bursaries at The Open University

...adapting to civilian can feel like an impossible feat. The Disabled Veterans’ Scholarships Fund offers these brave servicemen and women free access to life-changing OU education, along with dedicated careers and disability support. Studying enables these military heroes to retrain for the civilian jobs market, to gain new skills and to take their first steps towards new...
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Article 5 mins
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...adaptation of one of the most famous novels about the depression, Walter Greenwood’s Love On The Dole got vetoed by the BBFC as liable to incite insurrections and only finally got made and released in 1941 - when, with the war industries running, unemployment was no longer a problem. The story, though, got an interesting twist with the message that such conditions would...
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Article 10 mins