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Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...simple act of focussing upon the idea of social justice would alienate people from the outset. In seeking social justice they were all seeking something slightly different. Consequently, as these differences emerged, the practitioners recognised that they needed to explore concepts and language, as well as who was served by practices and why, and what the practices might...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...simple deductions about antibiotic use and resistance patterns discuss the consequences of a future without antibiotics. Although this is an introductory course to antibiotic resistance, it assumes that you have a basic understanding of DNA and proteins. If you are unfamiliar with these concepts, you may want to try our free OpenLearn course What do genes do? or listen to...
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...simple dug out area on the stadion surface in most cases). Pentathlon competitors required a broad range of skills in order to suceed in all five events, as well as a combination of physical prowess and psychological strength and endurance, which appealed particularly to the Ancient Greek principle of kalokagathia. Jump The jump event (halma), was similar to our modern...
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...simple explanation of sound in terms of a travelling pressure wave explain ‘cycle’ in terms of an oscillating source and the pressure wave it produces relate amplitude (including peak-to-peak and r.m.s.), frequency, period and wavelength to a sinusoidal waveform calculate the wavelength of a pressure wave from a graph of pressure against distance...Sound for music...
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...simple mementos, family photographs can offer insights into the past. This free course, Picturing the family, looks at some of the ways photographs can reveal, and sometimes conceal, important information about the past. It teaches the skills and provides some of the knowledge needed to interpret such pictorial sources...Besides being simple mementos, family photographs...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...simple chart like this. So I can fill in the butterflies I've seen in my 15 minute station. One Small Tortoiseshell. And one Red Admiral. OK, that's my 15 minutes up. So I can just add a few more little details to the last page. And then press Submit. Now, if you're not using the app, then you now need to go and enter it on the website. OK, right. Now I'm going to put in...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...Code of Practice, London, The Stationary Office Department of Health. (2017) Care Act (2014) Statutory Guidance, London HM Government. Jones, R. (2014) Mental Capacity Act Manual, 6th ed., London, Sweet and Maxwell. Maclean, S., Shiner, M., Surtees, R. (2015) Social Care and the Law in Scotland Lichfield, Kirwin Maclean Associates Ltd. Patrick, H., Stavert, J. (2016)...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...simple video clips can be produced and used for online teaching purposes. This week we have a clip from a teacher named Sarah S. Her experiences reflect a few of the concepts we introduce this week and will discuss further in the weeks to come: SARAH: I want to tell you today about how I moved my teaching online. After completing several courses offered by the Open...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs