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Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...everyday problems through the lens of different disciplines provides exciting opportunities to find ways in which subjects connect and influence each other. Flexible study has always been at the heart of the Open University. Our unique Open qualifications allow you to combine subjects and develop your knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines. Enabling you to...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...English in 1952. Albertini puts the main responsibility for the outbreak of war squarely on Germany’s shoulders. However, there had been little interest in his work and certainly nothing to suggest a huge debate might soon erupt on this topic. The most important challenge to the established post-war consensus that the war had been an accident came from a German...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

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

...English at Edinburgh University, and a strong supporter of education for women. Having been denied access to established medical schools, some British women were determined to found their own training courses. This was quite possible in Britain where there were many private medical schools set up by practitioners. Opinion was divided on the matter among medical women....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...everyday interaction – in the workplace, but also within families and neighbourhoods. Culture, which can mean through the arts, but also through traditions. Political, which can mean through the activity of political parties and activist groups, but also informally and more routinely, as people persuade one another of a certain view of the world. Of course, these three...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...everyday work. We summarise and capture these dynamics as related to two substantive dimensions of leadership: identity and participation. It is these dimensions that shape how we approach this course. This week will be dedicated to providing you with a primer on both...Week 2: Identity and participative practice in collaborative leadership: 2 Leadership and identity - It...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...everyday with all your colleagues, the children, all the parents and all the other agencies and people that we deal with day to day. The theory has a real impact on what you’re doing on a day to day basis. I used to come into work and, yeah, I always think I did a pretty good job but now I really know why I’m doing it. I know what difference, what I’m doing with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...English or mathematics and go on to a multitude of different careers. Ditto computer science. One can major in computer science and go on to a career in medicine, law, business, politics, any type of science or engineering, and even the arts. Jeannette M. Wing, Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (United States) and Head of Microsoft Research...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...everyday professional practice. Activity 2 Theory and practice Timing: Allow approximately 20 minutes Think about the work that you do every day, whether it’s in education or with children or young people in some other context. Now think about some of the ways in which you are aware that practice has changed in that context over (say) the past 20 years or so. What are...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs