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Money & Business
Collective leadership
This free course, Collective leadership, will give you an insight into the importance of how to be a more effective leader, and how to better engage and work with ‘followers’ in an organisational setting. It considers the ‘heroic’ leader of the past and how leadership studies historically focused on the individual. It then builds on what is meant by Collective Leadership, using real-life case studies as examples.
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Education & Development
Global perspectives on primary education
This free course, Global perspectives on primary education, provides an introduction to comparative education studies and will compare and contrast primary schooling around the world. You will look into classrooms and hear from teachers, teacher educators and policy makers from a range of education settings and countries. You will also learn about United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the agenda for free, universal, quality education.
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Society, Politics & Law
Critical criminology and the social sciences
This free course, Critical criminology and the social sciences, will provide you with an insight into some of the main disciplines within the social sciences, focusing in particular on critical criminology. It will begin by outlining some of the defining characteristics of the social science disciplines of psychology, law, sociology and critical criminology. Using the global financial crisis of 2007-8 as a case study, the course will then provide you with an insight into how academics working in some of these different disciplinary backgrounds make sense of a similar topic in different ways. The course will conclude by considering the place of critical criminology within the social sciences.
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Money & Business
MSE’s Academy of Money
The Open University has joined forces with MoneySavingExpert (MSE) to produce this new free course to give you the skills and knowledge to master your finances. Packed with videos, audios, quizzes and activities the course covers all the key aspects of personal finance in six sessions of study that each take around two hours to complete.
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Springwatch 2020
In a spring like no other, we’ll be bringing you inspiring stories from the natural world.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Coronavirus: The Lowdown
Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). We've pulled together some content on the virus and how to cope in these unprecedented times.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
FREE Mental Health Tips and Resources
Self-isolating and the constant bad news and panic around coronavirus is unsettling and can have implications on our mental health. Here are some FREE resources to improve your wellbeing.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Are you a super recogniser?
Police super-recognisers have an above average ability to recognise faces and have indentified a large number of criminals via CCTV footage. Do you possess the skill? Try our quiz to find out.
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