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Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...badged open course, Understanding your sector, you may have undertaken this activity before. Activity 6 How do you spend your time? Timing: Allow about 15 minutes The schedule below lists 90-minute blocks of time between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. on the seven days of the week. It assumes that most people sleep sometime between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m., but you can adapt this for your...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is ......
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course, T229 Mechanical engineering: heat and flow....Engineering: environmental fluids: Introduction - We all have constant daily experience of fluids, from breathing air to taking showers and checking weather forecasts, which means that we all have a great deal of intuitive knowledge about how they behave; this...
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...Open University badged course LG003 - An introduction to artificial intelligence...Week 2: Assuming AI is possible, what happens next?: Next steps - Learning AI will take you on a fascinating journey, we hope that you’ll continue your studies with the Open University on our AI short course: LG003 - An introduction to artificial intelligence Or continue your learning...
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course KE206 Making a difference: working with children and young people...Supporting children and young people's wellbeing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand some of the principles, purposes and responsibilities affecting those working with children and young people...
Working in teams Badge icon
Money & Business

Working in teams

...course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they are a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development. Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges ......
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...Open University courses. What is the status of photographs as evidence? Is there any real difference between news and advertising pictures, for instance? How, as social scientists, should we approach the ‘reading’ or analysis of documentary photographs? Can we use photographs to inform us about key dimensions of modern society such as gender, ethnicity, class and...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...courses available with The Open University...IT in everyday life: 2.3 IT and you - Sometimes it's useful to stop and think a bit about your own experiences and focus on your own views. This can help you understand issues in more depth. For example, when studying the impact of IT on everyday life, your own experiences are a useful resource. Activity 4 Think of ways in...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs