Learning outcomes On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to: provide a range of definitions of corporate governance; identify issues usually addressed by corporate governance structures; summarise recent scandals and abuses and the regulatory reaction; identify the other drivers of corporate governance, such as capital markets, shareholders and rating agencies. Except for third party Using experiential learning to create passion about your subject in your students. Active Learning in Large Lectures Learning outcomes Learning outcomes Learning outcomes Learning outcomes By the end of your study of this unit, you should have: an understanding of the common techniques underlying free verse and traditional forms of poetry; begun to identify aspects of your own experience and imagination that you can use when writing poems; learnt the basic terminology and practical elements of poetry. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see Author(s): Learning outcomes By the end of this unit you should: have begun to identify your own strengths and weaknesses as a writer of fiction; have developed a general awareness of fiction writing; have developed a basic vocabulary to discuss fiction. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made Learning outcomes By the end of this unit you should: be able to distinguish between negative and positive concepts of freedom; have a good knowledge of the main points in Isaiah Berlin's article ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’; be able to recognise emotive language, to distinguish between necessary truths and contingent facts, and to appreciate what is involved in refutation by counterexample. Original Copyright & Learning outcomes After studying this unit you should: have an awareness of what is involved in the study of philosophy, which enables you to offer arguments for and against the main positions discussed; have a rudimentary ability to use philosophical reasoning techniques. Original Copyright © 2006 The Open University. Now made available within the Creative Commons framework under the CC Attribution – Non-commercial lice Learning outcomes After studying this unit you should be able to: appreciate the characteristics of consultancy when viewed as a service offered for sale; as client, identify suitable contexts for using consultants; as client, identify, gather information on, and evaluate the suitability of competing consultants. Original Copyright © 2006 The Open University. Now made available within the Creative Commons framewo Learning outcomes Learning outcomes After studying this unit you should: be aware that photographs are shaped by a set of conventions based on ideas and practices which are not immediately apparent; be aware that photographs, like other documentary records, are partial and biased; be aware that photographs, like other documentary records, require critical analysis and careful interpretation; be aware of the importance of contextualisation in analysing photographs. Learning outcomes Learning outcomes Learning outcomes Learning outcomes On completion of this unit you will have: examined the place play has in the curriculum framework/guidance or documents most relevant to your setting; considered various definitions of play; explored ideas about the value of play and adults' attitudes towards play; considered play in your setting and attempted to access children's perceptions of play; explored issues such as gender and play and children's right to play. Learning outcomes After studying this unit you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of the strategic importance of communications in a competitive environment. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Author(s): Learning outcomes By the end of this unit you should be able to: make an informed judgement about whether or to what extent a financial market satisfies the conditions of an efficient market; identify the main factors that could detract from that efficiency. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made Learning outcomes After studying this unit you should be able to: explain the concept of risk in an investment context; comment critically on the impact of the principal risk factors in a given investment context. Original Copyright © 1998 The Open University. Now made available within the Creative Commons framework under the CC Attribution – Non-commercial licence (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk
Marcy teaches broadcast voice and presentation classes in the television studio at Stony Brook. She discusses how she tries to "light a fire" within her students to get them excited about the course. She talks about teaching by example and how she provides positive feedback to her students as they perform on camera. Marcy describes the cutting edge School of Journalism newsroom that allows students to work across multimedia platforms including text, video, audio and online. She also describes t
Joe Lauher, a professor of chemistry at Stony Brook, describes how he and a team of his colleagues transformed their organic chemistry course. This course is taught to over a thousand students each year in a lecture hall that seats 560 students. Joe discusses how the introduction of clickers has engaged his students by forcing them to think about and discuss the content with fellow students during the large lectures. In particular, he discusses how the questions posed to the class need to be
Are you a technophobe? Bluetooth, Ethernet WiFi – are they terms that mean nothing to you? This unit will gently guide you to an understanding of how devices 'talk' to each other and what technologies and processes are involved. You will also look at wired and wireless communication technologies, introducing you to some of the key methods involved.
This unit looks at the short poems in German that were set to music by Franz Schubert (1797–1828) for a single voice with piano, a genre known as ‘Lieder’ (the German for ‘songs’). Once they became widely known, Schubert's Lieder influenced generations of songwriters up to the present day.This unit then discusses a selection of Schubert's settings of Goethe's poems, and recordings of all of them are provided. You can find the poems, in German with parallel translations into English and
This unit introduces you to analysing academic writing and, in particular, the way an article might be structured to clearly explain an investigation to other researchers. It explores observation of children and young people using qualitative observation approaches in small-scale studies.
Businesses are increasingly making explicit their committment to dealing with ethical concerns. This unit 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.
Latin is the basis for many languages in the world. This unit will provide you with a general introduction to learning Latin allowing you to assess whether you would like to learn more. You will look at the links that exist between Latin and English, examine the structure of sentences and gain an awareness of the fundamentals of pronunciation in Latin.
This unit looks at some of the architectural and programming paradigms used in distributed system development. You will learn about synchronous and asynchronous message passing, distributed objects technology and event-based bus architecture, before finally moving on to tuple architecture.
What is ‘e-commerce’? This unit will look at typical application areas including the internet, supply chain management and online auctions. It will also help you to understand the underlying technologies used to implement e-commerce applications before looking at some of the problems that can be encountered when developing distributed e-commerce systems.













