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Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...research from around the world, so that you reflect on personal and institutional responses to enacting leadership that support the involvement of all. If you haven’t already, you might want to consider exploring the related OpenLearn courses after completing this course: Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development Leadership for inclusion: thinking...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...research and consider ways of turning events into a plot. This course is intended for those with an interest in starting to write fiction or improving their fiction writing, and does not require any previous experience of studying this subject....Week 1: Starting to write fiction: Introduction - Welcome to this free course, Start writing fiction: characters and stories....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...Research conducted by The Wales Rural Observatory (2009) for the ‘One Wales’ coalition government in 2010, found that other challenging issues for those living in rural areas include the relatively high cost of goods (including fuel), transport difficulties and poor access to broadband. Nevertheless, more than 90 per cent of those surveyed said they were satisfied...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...research, debates and challenges that impact on children’s reading and gain knowledge and strategies to help you promote reader engagement across schools, homes and communities...It is widely recognised that supporting children to become capable and engaged readers plays an important role in their future success. Reading empowers; it facilitates education and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...Research shows that as well as providing us with a form of entertainment, the activity of reading can bring benefits to our wellbeing in challenging times. People have experienced and explored these benefits throughout history. A good story can entertain us, develop our creativity and imagination, and transport us to different fictional worlds, but it can change us...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...research is still in its infancy. While researching for this project it was obvious that more research and evaluation is necessary to ascertain the impact of hiring African and Caribbean coaches to their national teams in comparison to White coaches from the Global North. It is only in recent times that coaches of African and Caribbean heritage have been given the...
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Article 5 mins
Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...research. By participating in this high profile research, you will be contributing to scientific knowledge about adult skill development and how we can develop successful future careers. Participation is confidential, voluntary and we will not pass on your details to others....Week 1: Where are you starting from?: Introduction - Welcome to Week 1 of this free badged...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...research, and the laboratory scientist claimed a greater authority than the clinical practitioner. The diagnosis of particular infectious diseases now relied on tests on tissue samples performed at the lab bench, not simply on the subjective analysis of patterns of symptoms. At the time Nicholas Jewson published his article ‘The disappearance of the sick-man from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs