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

...badged open courses on employability. Choose health Quarantine is bound to have an impact on our physical and mental health. Maybe you'd like to use this as an opportunity to go on health kick, or maybe you want to concentrate on your mental health and wellbeing instead - we've got you covered with our free courses and articles. Make sure you check out our Mind, Body,...
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

...course comes with a statement of participation and a digital badge, allowing learners and employers to record and recognise their achievements as they progress through their six-month Kickstart placement. We offer short courses across a wide range of employee needs. Some focused directly on Skills for Work such as communication, leadership and mentoring, whilst others...
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

...Open learn course suggests how you might use these graphics and provides more information about sustainability competencies in education contexts. Sustainability learning outcomes, skills and activities Learning outcomes describe the skills and knowledge students are expected to have developed upon successfully completing their studies. Integrating sustainability into...
Create stunning images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Create stunning images of the Universe

...Badged Course, Astronomy with an online telescope. The course begins with the factors involved in planning observations and why we use telescopes before requesting your first image (of a Messier object) from COAST. The course then moves on to explore stars in more detail considering how they produce light, how stars are grouped by type and how they evolve. Finally,......
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Badged Open Course as part of their induction; take a look at Being An OU Student. Around 20% of our informal learners don’t speak English as a first language, luckily we have a course for that, English: Skills for Learning. 14% of learners on OpenLearn have a disability. We’re big on accessibility as a result of this. We’re advocates of employability and have a...
Get started with OpenLearn
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Get started with OpenLearn

...badges. The following short video will show you: how to create an account how to enrol on a course how to manage and track your progress how to earn your statement of participation and/or digital badge and where to find them! Creating an OpenLearn account It takes just a minute to set up your OpenLearn user account and profile, but if you have any further questions about...
Using OpenLearn as an OU Student
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student

...badges Digital badges which you have earned for successful completion of Badged Open Courses on OpenLearn are listed in your OpenLearn profile, and also on your OU student record. They appear in your StudentHome online study record, and on your downloadable Student Academic Summary. [OpenLearn badge Forensic psychology] This means that ......