IT Skills
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The increasing use of technology in all aspects of society makes confident, creative and productive use of ICT an essential skill for life. It is necessary for any profession to stay up-to-date in this fast-changing world of information as ICT capability is fundamental to participation and engagement in modern society. The OU offers courses that show how other information services are facing the challenge and consider ways of proving their worth in the Google age as well as courses that give grounding in basic systems theory and terminology to enable you to identify, describe and analyse ICT systems.
Courses
- Implementing successful ICT systems
This course is an introduction to applying systems approaches to ICT projects. - The evolving information professional: challenges in a digital world
This course is for information professionals looking to keep up to date with modern technologies, sources of information and today’s users.
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See the list of all our Professional skills courses.
Skills at the OU
- Change Management
- Clinical Leadership
- Communications
- Financial Management
- Food Science Skills
- General Management Skills
- Health and Social Care
- Human Resource Management
- IT Skills
- Key Corporate Skills
- Leadership
- Marketing
- People Management
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Strategy
- Travel Planning
- Updating Teacher Practice Skills
Spotlight on IT Skills
Effective decision-making skills
Decision making skills are used to solve problems, selecting one course of action from several possible options. Decision-making skills are a key component of time management and our Effective decision-making skills (GB077) course explores how time spent on routine decision-making can be reduced, making room for other management tasks.
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