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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
Careers education and guidance
Education & Development

Careers education and guidance

...free course, Careers education and guidance (CEG), discusses what a school's personal development programme should provide, and how all teachers have a role in securing successful transitions for their students. PLEASE NOTE: This course is over 10 years old and due for academic review. You may find infomation that has become dated in its current contents, such as the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...free course. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Figures Figure 1: © Agelika Schwarz/iStockphoto.com; © Elena Ellisseeva/iStockphoto.com Figure 2: © The Open University Figure 3: © The Open University Figure 4: ©...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...free course that should be helpful to anyone who experiences panic or panic attacks, for their family and friends, and anyone more generally interested in mental health and mental health treatment. The course starts by exploring formal definitions of panic and panic attack. These are then contrasted with personal accounts of the experience of panic. It also presents some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...free course, Managing and managing people, will introduce you to the world of management. We will be looking at a range of topics, including what managers do, what skills they require, and how you can develop as a manager...This free course, Managing and managing people, will introduce you to the world of management. We will be looking at a range of topics, including what...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...free course, Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings, introduces the key ideas and practices of mindfulness, describes how it is helping counselling clients and prisoners, and also looks at some of the criticisms mindfulness has received in recent years...This free course, Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings, introduces the key ideas and practices of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...free course, Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?, will help to boost your confidence. You'll explore useful skills so you can discover how ready you are to study and how to develop your study skills in six steps to become a successful apprentice distance learner...Distance learning can open up opportunities for study. You might have not studied for a while,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs