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Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...concept as part of a broader retail trend in the United Kingdom and other countries towards more differentiated premium food products. How did the stories of these entrepreneurs compare? Did you notice any similarities, either at the individual level, or in terms of external factors (for example social or economic trends) that have helped shape their entrepreneurial...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...concepts. As well as the course text, you will be using The Life of Mammals book (LoM) and related The Life of Mammals DVDs, as described in the introduction to this course. Before you go any further, watch 'The Social Climbers' on the DVD and read LoM Chapter 9. Unless stated otherwise, all the page references you encounter in this course will be to LoM. The social...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...concept of domestic service, which offered Lotte her escape route, is itself one constructed through both class and gender. The UK was the only country offering a ‘specific scheme of rescue for the Jews through domestic service’ (Kushner, 1994, p. 112). Many of the women refugees were recognised not to be of ‘the domestic class’ by the Home Office, which accepted...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...concept of learning design. Learning design involves providing a context or a background that will support a learning experience. It involves the educator making some clear and deliberate choices about what, when, where and how to teach. It also involves giving thought to things like: resources a learner may require for learning the amount of time needed for progression...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...concept is helpful in understanding that the influence is not always fully reciprocal – ‘older’ parts of the brain such as the limbic brain appear to have a stronger influence on the ‘newer’ parts than vice versa. For instance, neural pathways sending messages from the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex (PFC) which is part of the neocortex are extensive, but...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...concepts associated with migration. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course S295 The biology of survival. Figure 1 Migration word cloud...Migration: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe some of the migratory journeys made by birds and other animals explain the process of adaptation by natural...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...in Inclusive Elementary Classrooms and Correlates with Student Self-Concept’, International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 48(1), pp. 33–52. Jordan, A., Glenn, C. and McGhie-Richmond, D. (2010) The Supporting Effective Teaching (SET) project, Teaching and Teacher Education 26(2), pp. 259–266. Kennedy, S. & Stewart, H. (2011) ‘Collaboration between occupational therapists and teachers: definitions,......
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...concept of climate engineering to counteract human-caused climate crisis appreciate that ‘climate’ can be defined as the probability of different types of weather, and that more years of weather data makes it easier to measure appreciate how the nature of climate brings particular challenges to engineering climate change. The Open University would really appreciate...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs