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Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...simple terms, they are unsure what they can do and also unsure whether they have authority to do anything to help improve the situation. They have now turned to you as a trusted member of the community for support and guidance. Activity 7 Residents’ association meeting You have been asked to address the next meeting of the residents’ association which is due to take...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...simple, small undivided stomach, but this time an even larger caecum and colon where the microbes are housed and where fermentation takes place, as you can see in Figure 3. One disadvantage of this method is that by the time the food reaches the caecum and colon, it has passed the main absorptive region of the gut (the small intestine) and so less absorption of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...simple model, developed by Tidd and Bessant (2018), of the innovation process as a series of phased activities, progressing from searching, selecting and implementing ideas in a context to capturing value for the innovating organisation. [Described image] Figure 5: The Search, Select, Implement, Capture (SSIC) model of the innovation process (Tidd and Bessant, 2018) To...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...simple Mandarin Chinese in everyday contexts! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXC002 Beginners Chinese 2: 开始吧 kāishĭ ba! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!...Have you always wanted to speak Mandarin Chinese? Have you even starte...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...simple input process output framework. This model has been extended by Nigel Slack and his team in his operations management text. The basic structure of the framework is the same. Operations managers are responsible for resources. Both the transformed resources, including the material, information, and customers. And they also manage the transforming resources, such as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...simple tool to use when embarking on the early stages of planning a marketing strategy, and we will work primarily with the four Ps. These four tools (product, price, place and promotion) are interdependent and the trick is to find the right ‘mix’ to satisfy customers...Rural entrepreneurship in Wales: 3.4.1 Product (or service) - The product or service relates to...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...simple claim: Empiricism (roughly characterised): opinions are reasonable if, and only if, they are supported by evidence that is ultimately grounded in experience. ‘Experience’, here, can mean everyday observation using one or more of the five senses, but it is also meant to include rigorous scientific experimentation. Respect for this principle is what supposedly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...Code requires directors of listed organisations to design and implement a sound internal control and risk management system (FRC, 2024). The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (2022) highlighted that almost half of the fraud cases covered by its global fraud study could be attributed to either a lack of internal controls (29%) or the overriding of existing controls...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs