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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...free course, Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?, explores the extent to which a person's 'lifestyle' impacts on their health and wellbeing. It also examines how non-lifestyle related factors – in particular social, economic, cultural and political dimensions – influence a person's health...This free course, Exploring health: is your lifestyle really...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...free course explores the potential of social media as a space that can be used in higher education/University to enhance educational experiences. It examines how students can take advantage of platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp to engage and connect with other fellow students and their lecturers. While, also examining the common pitfalls and using case study...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...free OpenLearn course Teaching and learning tricky topics useful...Supporting university students with a mental health condition: References - Baik, C., Larcombe, W. and Brooker, A. (2019) ‘How universities can enhance student mental wellbeing: The student perspective’. Higher Education Research & Development, 38(4), pp. 674–87. Brown, P. (2016) ‘The invisible...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...free course, What are waves? explains what waves are. It describes different types of wave as well as their properties. You can listen to the song of a humpback whale and learn about the process of echolocation which is used by dolphins to locate their food. You will also conduct your own online research into how bats use echolocation to locate their prey and also to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...free course, An introduction to crime and criminology. This course will introduce you to the study of crime within the subject area of criminology by considering the relatively common-place problem of vandalism in the form of graffiti. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD105 Introduction to criminology...An introduction to ......
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...free course: Course image: Artyom_Anikeev / iStockphoto.com Activity 1: Skydiving: Pixabay; Pexels; Horse riding: Anna Jokiranta; Pexels; Reading a book; Burst; Pexels; Saving money: rawpixel.com; Pexels; Gambling: Pixabay; Pexels; Stock trading: Negative Space; Pexels; Water skiing: Pixabay; Pexels; Donkey ride: csfotoimages; iStockphoto.com; Rock climbing: photo by...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...free course, Electronic applications. An interactive website with videos and interactive software will show how electronic systems pervade everything we do; review some basic ideas of signal processing, control and communications; and allow you to use a digital filter to remove Gaussian noise from a signal...Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Take for example this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...free course will increase your knowledge and skills and show you ways that adults, both parents and professionals, can play an active role in supporting and promoting good health in babies and young children...The health of babies and young children is at a critical point. Increased levels of poor mental health, high levels of childhood obesity and concerns about...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs