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Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...projects with your manager at the pub with a trusted friend who works in an area you’d like to explore. Activity 6 Thinking about your own career narrative Timing: Allow about 5 minutes. Choose a scenario where you might be sharing your career narrative, and decide who you will be sharing it with, e.g. chatting to someone at a sector networking event. Now make a note of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...project. Yet at the same time, both the anniversary and Fry’s retreat from public life, call for a reconsideration of exactly what is being remembered and what should be commemorated. Who was Elizabeth Fry? Born Elizabeth Gurney on 21 May 1780 at Norwich, she was one of twelve children born into the wealthy merchant and banking Gurney family, and spent most of her...
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Article 15 mins
Being Sustainable(ish)
Nature & Environment

Being Sustainable(ish)

...manageable in their lives to help the environment. Jen's inspiring session is all about ‘progress not perfection’ – the idea being that a lot of people making a manageable change and doing them well, has greater impact than a few people doing them perfectly. Jen's own words: 'We're often short on time, energy, and sometimes sanity, and to top it off eco-anxiety is...
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Video 40 mins
Sustainability
Education & Development

Sustainability

...Manager...I work as a Senior Manager in the Access, Open and Cross-curricular Innovation team. The reason why I really like YXM130 is the flexibility, allowing you to study what interests you from a wide range of subject areas. I have always been a keen environmentalist and been fortunate to support and work alongside the OU academics who author the Environment...
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Article 5 mins
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...management, business, and project management are helpful for careers in IoE. Computer-aided design (CAD), drafting, math, and physics are applicable and show a diverse education, which is perfect for an IoE career. The Open University is part of the Cisco Networking Academy programme. You can find out more about our Cisco courses and also explore our full computing...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...introduction of smoking bans, there is a growing recognition that social marketing has a role to play in achieving a wide range of social goals. This free course, Social marketing, examines the nature of social marketing and how the adoption of marketing concepts, frameworks and techniques developed for commercial marketers can be applied to the solution of social...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...Introduction - Unleash your creativity and discover the fun of designing with code in this free OpenLearn course, Algorithmic Design. In this hands-on course, you’ll learn to think algorithmically and explore the aesthetics of code through playful experimentation with JavaScript and the p5.js library. You’ll engage with design ideas such as repetition, modularity, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Wholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Wholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Ireland

...project Art has always been a powerful vehicle for social justice and the struggle for abortion rights throughout the island of Ireland was no exception. This beautiful short film depicts the commitment, creativity, colour and emotion that artists brought to the Irish abortion campaigns. Through interviews with the artists themselves, it describes how artists used...
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Video 30 mins