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Building confidence in using online forums free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

Learn about the benefits of online learning forums, with strategies for participating more fully.

Free course
8 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales) free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

Teaching assistants are an important resource in education. This unit looks at how the role has developed across the UK over time and particularly in Wales. It explores the skills and attributes that teaching assistants use to provide effective support and contribute to productive teamwork.

Free course
4 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

Teaching assistants are an important resource in education. This free course, Teaching assistants: support in action, looks at how the role has developed across the UK over time. It explores the skills and attributes that teaching assistants use to provide effective support and contribute to productive teamwork. This OpenLearn course introduces ...

Free course
4 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world free course icon level 1: introductory icon Badge icon

Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

This free course, Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world, will develop your confidence and skills for life online, whether study, work or everyday life. It explores a range of digital skills and practices, including digital identity, digital well-being, staying safe and legal, finding and using information and online tools, and dealing ...

Free course
24 hrs
Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Education & Development

Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith

Mae cynorthwywyr addysgu yn adnodd pwysig ym myd addysg. Mae'r uned hon yn edrych ar sut mae'r rôl wedi datblygu ledled y DU dros amser. Mae'n ystyried y sgiliau a'r nodweddion y mae cynorthwywyr addysgu yn eu defnyddio er mwyn rhoi cymorth effeithiol a chyfrannu at waith tîm cynhyrchiol.

Free course
4 hrs
Internships and other work experiences free course icon level 1: introductory icon Badge icon

Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

In this free course, Internships and other work experiences, you’ll begin by learning more about what an internship is and how it might differ from other forms of work experience. You’ll find out what you can gain personally and professionally, and consider the practicalities of obtaining work experience, from how to choose what’s right for you,...

Free course
24 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation free course icon level 2: intermediate icon

Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

This free course, Climate justice for the next generation, frames global warming and climate change in terms of social justice, human rights and intergenerational equality and emphasises how children and those least responsible for climate change are the ones who suffer its most significant consequences. The course looks at the impact ...

Free course
7 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies free course icon level 2: intermediate icon

Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

This free course, Children’s experiences with digital technologies, is an introduction to how children use digital technologies, such as mobile applications, digital games and computers, and what they learn from these experiences. The course draws on debates about screen time to critically examine and present evidence about the effects of ...

Free course
8 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

This free course, Collaborative problem solving for community safety, offers a range of techniques for community police officers, other community-based public service professionals and members of community groups working to solve problems collaboratively and creatively. It examines some of the ways which OU specialists in creative problem ...

Free course
16 hrs
Step up to leadership free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Money & Business

Step up to leadership

This free course is one in a series focusing on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing with the community. This particular course focuses on the challenge of leadership and leading change in an ever-changing policing context. It provides insights to help individuals become more effective leaders of teams ...

Free course
4 hrs
The importance of interpersonal skills free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

To succeed in management you need good interpersonal skills, you need to understand how to deal with other people. This free course, The importance of interpersonal skills, will help you gain an awareness of your own skills and understand that an awareness of the interpersonal skills of others can help us enormously in dealing with the work ...

Free course
3 hrs
Careers education and guidance free course icon level 2: intermediate icon

Education & Development

Careers education and guidance

Successful transitions – whether from lower secondary to upper secondary, into work-based training or university, or into work at any age – are life-enhancing for individuals and crucial to our future social and economic well-being. They are also an indicator of a good school. This free course, Careers education and guidance (CEG), discusses ...

Free course
8 hrs