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Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...think about what you might do within your current job to accommodate or even take advantage of these, and also to see what opportunities might exist elsewhere. Lynne Johnson introduces you to Week 2 in the video below. LYNNE JOHNSON Welcome to Week 2. Last week, you explored the differences between various sectors, industries and professions and found out why it’s so...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Design for beginners
Science, Maths & Technology

Design for beginners

...thinking about design principles from how letters are shaped to creating three dimensional models. This material forms part of The Open University course U101 Design thinking... Shapes of letters Steve Garner uses a newspaper to show how you can observe shapes of letters. Tone in design Steve Garner gives examples of how to create a range of tones. The overlay technique...
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Video 15 mins
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...think probably the thing that really triggered my interest and made me almost obsessive about, as I am to this day, was a film I made in Poland before the wall came down when a report was smuggled out that said seven-twelfths of Polish land was unliveable on because the Soviets had been using it as their industrial backyard. And I went and made a film there and that...
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Video 20 mins
Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...systems they seek to explore. In a context saturated with hype and hope, there is a need for more varied insight. The provision of this is one of the key achievements of The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education. Edited by Deborah Lupton, Inger Mewburn (of Thesis Whisperer fame) and Pat Thomson, this scholarly edited work...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...thinking about pursuing a course of study to become a marketing professional...This free course, Understanding your customers, is a short introduction to understanding customers. The course underlines the relevance of understanding customers as individuals, members of society and members of organisations. It clarifies some key marketing concepts and terminology and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...think about taking other courses...Take your teaching online: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Week 4 and Week 8. For all the quizzes, you can have three attempts at most of the questions (for true or false type questions you usually only get...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...think above all else we need to be true to nature, and to be true to nature you need to give the context as it really is. So it’s not about what’s palatable to the audience. Yes, of course we need to make informative, educational and above all entertaining wildlife films, but they have to be true to nature in all its senses, and that means showing humanity, the...
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Video 10 mins
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...think about ourselves, reframing unhelpful beliefs and building more confidence to achieve goals and positively move forward in life...Unconscious self-limiting beliefs and attitudes Psychologists have long been fascinated with the fact that people don’t just form attitudes about themselves that they can tell you about when asked (‘I am particularly good at problem...
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Article 10 mins