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Managing care

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In the arenas of health and social work, management is a crucial part of ensuring quality of service and care for users and staff, and the development of services and standards into the future. The discussions and interviews in this album focus on the importance of management strategies and techniques and garner the opinions and insights of staff at all levels, as well as those in care. These in-depth and frank audio tracks give a real-life sense of the managerial experience, including starting the job, day-to-day planning and the implementation of policy and good practice. This material forms part of The Open University course K303 Managing care.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

Leslie Budd on... sponsorship

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Is sponsorship part of being a good corporate citizen or simply part of a marketing strategy? Leslie Budd discusses
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

Freezing out the cold callers

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Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

David Skyrme's story

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Explore the personal side of climate change with David Skyrme's diary entry.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

Checks and chavs

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Burberry's adoption by a demonised segment of the working class proved troubling for the brand.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

A linguistic toolkit for health and social care

Apply the findings of our linguistic research to situations you, or someone you know, might find themselves in. Explore different advising strategies in three real-life scenarios in this interactive.

Category: Social Care & Social Work

TESSA: Active Learning

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These short dramas portray a range of active learning techniques in a fictional primary school in West Africa: 'Cast the Spell' - creating a drama in the classroom; 'Seven Rivers in Africa' - using songs and poems; 'The Maths Game' - engaging pupils with games; 'The Open Day Drama' - pupils working in groups; 'The Town Meeting' - interactive stories and 'Let me do the Cooking Mama' - practical tasks.

These dramas are not 'perfect' lessons but raise questions about different strategies which teachers can use to enhance their pupils’ learning.
Category: Education

TESSA: Motivating Pupils

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Effective teachers use a variety of strategies and activities to engage their pupils with learning in school. These short dramas show three teachers' attempts to make learning more relevant and motivating for their pupils; 'Anything for School' and 'The Music Teacher' show classroom lessons whilst 'Plantain Seller' takes place at school sports day.

The clips in this album are designed to be used to support the development of teachers' classroom practice in both formal and non formal learning situations. This material is from the TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa) initiative.
Category: Education

Sun Tzu (4th Century BC)

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Sun Tzu wrote in the 4th century BC, but his ideas still influence military, political and business leaders today
Category: Philosophy

Facilitating group discussions

Gain an insight into facilitating meetings and discussions in the workplace. In this free course, Facilitating group discussions, you will look at some of the behaviours effective facilitators exhibit. Informative and engaging videos will introduce you to examples of facilitation in practice.
Category: Money & Business

What is strategy?

Please note: this course will be closing on 11 May 2022. After this date, you will no longer be able to study the course but if you've already gained your cerficate this will continue to display in your learner profile.

Thinking about strategy generates many controversial questions. This free course, What is strategy?, focuses on practitioner views of strategy. You will learn about application of its major theoretical advances in professional life. The course provides definitions of the concept of strategy and strategy-related vocabulary and examines Mintzberg's five Ps framework.
Category: Money & Business

How to sustain a start-up

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Suranga Chandratillake, founder of video search engine Blinkx, discusses the strategic challenges to sustainable growth for a technology start-up.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies

Helena Morrissey on expanding into emerging markets

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With so many factors to consider, it's a huge decision to expand to emerging markets. Helena Morrissey discusses the reasons behind taking the plunge
Category: Business Strategy & Studies

Forewarned is Forearmed

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Can market analysis and good planning help companies through tough times?
Category: Business Strategy & Studies

Teenage tycoons

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Political parties are united on the need to encourage young people to become entrepreneurs, But are teenage tycoons born or made?
Category: Business Strategy & Studies

Where Do You Go From Here?

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Planning the way forward and setting objectives for your business idea.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies

Creating an ethical organisation

Please note: this course will be closing on 11 May 2022. After this date, you will no longer be able to study the course but if you've already gained your cerficate this will continue to display in your learner profile.

Businesses are increasingly making explicit their commitment to dealing with ethical concerns. This free course, Creating an ethical organisation, explores the business case for an ethical approach to human resources management, and examines whether a more 'human-centred' approach can bring dividends and how an ethical approach fits within an organisation's strategy.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies

Introducing a framework for strategy

Please note: This course will be closing on 27th April 2022. You can still study the course and gain a certificate in the course up until this date. The record of the course completion will still be on your OpenLearn profile after the course closes.

If you are currently engaged in strategic decision-making, or will be in the future, this free course, Introducing a framework for strategy, will stimulate your imagination and inform your judgement. An understanding of the frameworks of strategy and an ability to use them imaginatively will help your organisation survive in the longer-term and perform its role more effectively.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies

Strategic view of performance

Please note: this course will be closing on 11 May 2022. After this date, you will no longer be able to study the course but if you've already gained your cerficate this will continue to display in your learner profile.

Strategic management and planning are no longer the preserve of senior executives. This free course, Strategic view of performance, looks at three different approaches to strategy before analysing the direction that strategic management may take now that it has become an accumulation of small tactical decisions rather than a top-down process. If you are interested in how a business 'ticks', this course could provide some of the answers.
Category: Human Resources

Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

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Is it possible to eradicate poverty? What steps should be taken to ensure an environmentally sustainable future for our planet? Rio+20 is a United Nations conference that draws in participation from all over the world attracting members of governments, the private sector as well as NGO’s amongst the thousands of guests who attend. The primary reason being to develop strategies to reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection as we look to the future. In this collection Open University academics reflect on its progress and prospects, and demonstrate that international gatherings of political leaders are not (fortunately?) the only game in town.
Category: Nature & Environment
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