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An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...motivation to staff. You may also wish to limit yourself to no more than three or four goals. If possible, it is preferable for your goals to be linked to your school’s overarching policies or strategies. However, this may not always be possible. Watch school library professional, Nick, discuss some of the specific considerations to be accounted for when creating your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...motivate support and commitment because it can offer the opportunities to interact socially and learn from others. Furthermore, people usually support what they create (Stanton, 1992). By contrast, many groups are much less explicitly focused on an external task. In some instances, the growth and development of the group itself is its primary purpose; process is more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
When Heath met Nixon
History & The Arts

When Heath met Nixon

...motivated by spite. "As we saw it, Yahya [Khan, Pakistan president] badly bungled the situation. We faced the question, should we keep our communication with Yahya? We decided to do it." The President then enumerated all we did to elicit conciliatory steps from Yahya and to try to restrain the Indians. "The major mistake we made was to be too reassuring. We were the only...
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Article 15 mins
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...et al., 2008 p. 203) The Ladder: Change is achieved by allowing people to resolve immediate needs and gradually accumulate resources and voice. Enlightened Elites: Change is achieved by shifting the hearts and minds of people in power, either through self-interest or threat, leading them to make institutions and policies more responsive. People in the Streets: Change is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...motivation, depression, self-indulgent or incompetent expenditure by husband, those husbands selfishly not handing enough over to their wives, a failure to look beyond today, simply increasing social security expenditure will not solve it. (Anderson, 1991, p. 27) Discussion Two things are being argued here. One is that there is a range of behaviours and attitudes that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...et al. (2002) using historical returns during the period 1900–2000. They showed that, during this period, UK equities achieved mean annual nominal returns of 12.1% compared with 6.1% for UK gilts. Their work also demonstrated how three-month UK Treasury bills yielded, on average, an annual 5.1% in nominal terms over the same period. Therefore, in the past, companies...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...et al., 2007), has extended the basic process model by dividing operations management tasks into three distinct areas: design tasks, planning and control, and improvement. The framework also relates the operations function more closely to market requirements. This helps us understand how the different operations tasks link together. Screencast 1 will help you to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...motivation (the reasons why you are engaged in a particular course of study) your previous history as a learner, both in a formal setting (such as at school or on another course) and informally, through unstructured or unexpected learning experiences. Pause for a moment and consider each of these two points in turn...Learning how to learn: 2.2 Your motivation - Activity 2...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs