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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...concept of innovation at an organisational level. It considers how organisations can more effectively tackle the challenges posed by creativity and innovation in order to be more successful. The trailer below explores one aspect that will be covered in the course: the paradox of choice. ...Making creativity and innovation happen: Introduction - Creativity and innovation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...concept of a non-injury accident. He defined this as an unintended event that causes property loss by damage to plant, equipment or materials, but does not cause actual injury, although it may have the potential to do so. In his work with around 1500 organisations, Heinrich concluded that for every major injury, there are 29 minor injuries and 300 accidents where no...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...concept map with the two terms pushing outwards from the centre. Write down as many words or phrases as you can about your understanding of what inquiry and research are and what they involve. Where are the similarities and differences between the two terms and how they are understood in your context? Discussion How you respond to the words inquiry and research will be...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...concepts of number are understood. This is known as conceptual understanding. Richard Skemp, the late educational psychologist, described two different ways to learn about and understand mathematics (Skemp, 1973). The procedural and conceptual understanding described above helps learners to understand how and why mathematical processes work. Skemp termed this relational...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...concept of ‘ethics work’ provides a helpful framework for conceptualising the task of ethical development for social workers, indicating seven features that may be attended to by practitioners developing as moral agents. Banks argues that ethics work is ‘an important antidote to the rules-based managerialism of much contemporary practice’ (p. 35). Ethics work...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...concepts such as corroboration and the appropriate use of the not proven verdict – admittedly a moot point once abolished from the Scottish legal process – and interpreting expert witness testimony (Smith v Lees, 1997, JC 73). Furthermore, Judge only trials would be in the unique position of providing complainants with a justification of how they arrived at their...
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Article 5 mins
Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...concepts of uniqueness and interdependence of place to other locations with which you are familiar. Explore the articles in this collection . Acknowledgements [D205 textbook cover] Jess, Pat. (1985) ‘ Unit 17 Local Change in the West of Ireland’ , in The Open University (1985) D205 ‘The Changing Face of the British Isles’, Milton Keynes, The Open University Press....
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Article 5 mins
Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...concept, ‘ethnicity’ is generally understood as representing a shared sense of identity and history. An ethnic group is therefore a group of people who see themselves as being distinctive in some way from others and of having a common heritage or background. What makes an ethnic group different from others will vary from one group to the next. For some it can be skin...
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Article 10 mins