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Free digital, numeracy and employability courses to build your skills
Education & Development

Free digital, numeracy and employability courses to build your skills

...of free courses to boost your skills from The Open University. Many others are available by exploring OpenLearn. You might like to visit The Skills Toolkit from the National Careers Service, where you can find many more courses to help you learn new skills or change jobs. Once you’ve finished studying, the National Careers Service can help you decide your next steps....
Rough sleepers in policy and practice: chaotic and off course, or misunderstood?
Society, Politics & Law

Rough sleepers in policy and practice: chaotic and off course, or misunderstood?

...course’ have been mobilised in policy framings of rough sleepers’ lives. These policy terms suggest a particular way of understanding the lives of rough sleepers - as disorganised, abnormal and headed in the wrong direction. But, to what extent to these reflect the experiences and understandings of rough sleepers themselves? One way to consider this question is to...
New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place
Miscellaneous

New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place

...courses below and let's come out of this with more knowledge than ever! Find out more about The Open University's Open Degree qualifications. Get writing Have you been itching to get your first novel started and haven't known where to begin? Well we know where - here! Start with Ten top tips for writing a novel. Then delve into the resources below: - So you've written...
Science for everyone as £1m pledge supports new Open University courses
Science, Maths & Technology

Science for everyone as £1m pledge supports new Open University courses

...courses by The Open University completely free of charge, thanks to a pledge in 2013 of more than £1m from Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch’s Foundation...The pledge has enabled The Open University to create an entire strand of new science-related badged open courses, delivered through the OpenLearn platform, and syndicated to iTunes, Amazon and...
Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course

...courses is part of the job. But what happened when he found himself having to create a crime drama?...[A person types on a typewriter] (Actually, we don't make our academics use typewriters, but we've burned through our collection of stock photos of people typing on laptops for our cybersecurity course...) "The city awoke to clouds, dank with a sense of heavy regret,...
Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers
Education & Development

Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers

...courses allow learners to enhance their digital and employability skills to suit any industry placement. These free, self-paced courses provide Kickstart employees an opportunity to plug any skills gaps, build their confidence and will help younger people transition into their next job, create a business or continue to explore learning pathways open to them. Kickstart...
Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials
Education & Development

Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials

...course design...Being curious is an important part of the journey towards embedding sustainability. It can be difficult trying to untangle what sustainability means in a learning design context and how to make that meaningful for students. The Open University’s (OU) Learning Design Team has created a set of resources to help prompt initial thoughts and discussions about...
Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs
Languages

Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs

...course, such as Motive (L203). Choose a video Subtitles in English Subtitles in German No subtitles Transcript Question: Where were the different parts of the Habsburg bodies buried and why were they buried separately? Answer: Wenn ein Habsburger gestorben ist, wurden zunächst einmal aus rein praktischen Gründen die Eingeweide entnommen, denn die beginnen zunächst zu...