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Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...Physical Taking risks; business and trading Commercial Words: 0 (Adapted from Career planning and job-seeking workbook, p. 30, Open University Careers Service.) Make a note of which were the most important values for you. Did any of them surprise you? You may want to come back to these when you start to develop your action plan towards the end of the course...Week 1: The...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...physical barrier. I think that’s really lovely. And also when you are having groups tables being able to sit down with students, crouch down also to be able to be attentive. Have that eye contact. Make sure that you are asking questions that are directly relevant to what they are saying. I think that makes them feel incredibly valued. So I’m encouraging others to kind...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...physical therapies that support the rehabilitation of children with paralytic polio are at the tertiary level of prevention, i.e. they can reduce the impact of paralysis on the child’s quality of life, but they have no impact whatsoever on the spread of polio virus in a community. However, tertiary strategies contribute to public health in a more subtle way. By...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...physically demanding in it, such as manual labour or armed combat. As a result of its special properties, the toga was, then, the garment worn on an everyday basis only by men who were not involved in manual labour: politicians, lawyers, clerks and businessmen, for example. As it required someone to help put it on, people who wore it on a regular basis would also have...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...physical symptoms. Despite this, ducks may remain infected for 2–4 weeks and during this time they shed virus in their faeces. Potentially this is a very important reservoir of infection; although flu viruses do not often cross the species barrier, the pool of viruses present in other species is an important genetic reservoir for the generation of new flu viruses that...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...physical force within a given territory’ (Weber, 1991 [1921], p. 78). While other elements are key to Weber’s definition, and we shall explore some of these below, territory is clearly central to it – the state claims to be dominant (it claims to say what goes) within a defined territory, or within a country’s borders. [Figure 3 Acitizenship ceremony for...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...physical dimensions of the building, the number of desks, how layout could be changed. So I also used maintenance information and facilities information as well to help me actually implement change Video 2 The role of secondary data in your MBA project What types of secondary data did they collect for their project? Was the source of the data internal or external? How was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...Physics, vol. 10, pp. 11707–35. Ziembicki, M. R., Woinarski, J. C., Webb, J. K., Vanderduys, E., Tuft, K., Smith, J. et al. (2014) ‘Stemming the tide: progress towards resolving the causes of decline and implementing management responses for the disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia’, Therya, vol. 6 (1), pp. 169–225...Fire ecology: Acknowledgements -...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs