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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...manage climate change, far outweighed the costs of action and that was the conclusion. But it was a conclusion that certainly for me I came to as a result of the work. RH: There was some criticism by other academics at the time that you hadn’t submitted the review for any peer reviewed process, it was given to the media first and some people say, and I think there’s...
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Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...managed to catch an extraordinary sequence where a young male polar bear actually goes onto a walrus island and attacks what is effectively really lethal prey with foot long tusks. And it’s a really powerful sequence and in fact the polar bear is fatally injured at the end of that sequence, and for me I felt it operated on two levels; it was a very powerful sequence in...
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Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...management and analysis...Making decisions about the world based on data requires a process that bridges the gap between unstructured data and the decision. Statistical hypothesis testing helps decision-making by formulating beliefs about the world, including people, organisations or other objects, and formally testing these beliefs. In this free course, you will study...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...manage our health and interact with the health service. As you can see, digital technology and innovations have the potential to change not only how we manage our health but also the way health and social care is delivered by a workforce who will need to be more technologically skilled than ever before. While there has been significant development in innovations to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...manage the pain and discomfort that will inevitably accompany them. There is also the psychological impact of fatigue as the muscular, nervous and cardiorespiratory systems may be working at their limits for prolonged periods of time. Also, owing to the sheer volume of exercise undertaken, sleep deprivation can also be an issue. Roebuck and colleagues (2018) identified...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...management...Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction: 1 Why use qualitative interviews? - Qualitative interviews are a conversation between a researcher and an interviewee. They are a useful method for finding out about people’s experiences or their views and can be used in a variety of situations to explore lots of different topics. The one-to-one nature of...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...management? PAUL WALLEY My interest is first provoked when I reviewed the progress of an IT project. The project didn’t seem to be going very well. And it became apparent quite quickly that one of the main issues was that of managing the stakeholders in the project. Their failure to engage the stakeholders has had a significant detrimental impact on the progress and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs