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Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...community patrols have overwhelming support in the town. Opinion polls in Hamilton, including one run by a local newspaper, revealed more than 90 per cent backing for the curfew, although more than half of all children thought police did not understand youngsters and stopped them for no reason. Yesterday, the Scottish Office urged the other seven Scottish forces to copy...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...community’, ‘national identity’ and ‘our’ way of life. Figure 2 shows some typical headlines from UK newspapers in the early 2000s, in which ‘asylum seekers’ are clearly constituted as one of the most demonised groups of people in the UK media. [Figure 2] Figure 2 Newspaper headlines from the early 2000s The sets of interconnections between citizenship,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...communicate, provide detailed assessments and recommendations about people's lives. The course is designed for social work students and those who are already qualified and who want to develop their understanding and skills in professional writing. The activities within the course are based on extensive research and will help you explore what matters in professional...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
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Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is possible to study them at any time, and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are all available on The Open University’s OpenLearn...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything to study. They differ from...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Do Something Great
Nature & Environment

Do Something Great

...community and explore volunteering...[D Something Great logo] Looking to get into volunteering? This Spring and Summer the BBC is launching its Do Something Great season. The season aims to get people to pledge their time towards volunteering and start making a difference. To complement Do Something Great OpenLearn has curated a variety of free learning tools including...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...developing field (see special issues in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, the Journal of Community & Applied and Social Psychology and the recent Social psychology of citizenship event at the OU), but it is quickly gathering pace, I would argue, because of its ability to shed light to the ways in which the political and the everyday are inherently entangled....
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Article 5 mins
Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...communication and practice, can seem daunting, especially outside traditional classrooms. In the academic year 2017/18 the award-winning ‘Flipping German’ project set out to explore how the flipped classroom methodology, that shifts the responsibility for learning strategies and, ultimately, the content of learning to the learner, can be applied to language modules at...
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Article 10 mins