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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
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...doubling the size of the problem takes more than twice as long! Scale today and tomorrow How big is a library today? The HathiTrust is a collaboration of research libraries founded in 2008 containing over 17 million digitised items. It offers both reading access (allowable by copyright law – about 39% is in the public domain) and it also allows computational access to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...et al., 2021). While your attraction towards heroic characters in fiction is easy to understand (they are pro-social, positive characters whom you may see as being role models), the attraction that you feel towards your favourite villain is perhaps harder to explain and has been something which psychologists, alongside authors of fiction, have been interested to explore....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...et al, 2003). Can the results be generalised? Someone who hears about or reads about your research might decide that, based on their experience then it is authentic and seems sensible. Does the data support the conclusions? This is more likely if there is more than one source of data collected over a period of time or if the findings have been checked with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...double the amount of aid Africa receives every year. So it just speaks for itself. We need companies, also multinational companies, to pay their taxes. Our problem is that these wonderful, great companies have the best lawyers in the world, have the best accountant in the world, because they can afford to pay whatever to have the best. And small African countries, we have...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...et al., 2021). These are all areas you should think about before you start your new role. In the following videos you will hear from Ploy and Zainab at iungo Solutions again, this time discussing important considerations around behaviour, culture, support and workspaces in remote or hybrid-first organisations. PORNNARAI NILDUANG: Hi, my name's Ploy. I work for iungo...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...et al. (2007) into the differences between learner perceptions of teaching in an online environment and in a face-to-face environment found that the online teacher should have a greater pastoral focus than that of a face-to-face teacher, and that often both teachers and learners needed guidance and training in communicating online. Without the ‘comfort’ of a physical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...doubling or halving, which on this occasion the scribe overlooked. Finally on this issue, it should be remarked that the very detection of ‘errors’ is bound up with the historian's analysis and understanding of the tablet. Although there is clearly an error somewhere along the bottom line, our pattern is equally preserved by taking it to be the column B entry that is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs