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Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...Becoming a polyglot: You might find one language is just not enough! Learning French will aid you with other Romance languages, such as Italian or Spanish. You will develop good language-learning skills to carry over to other languages too. Culture: Learning French will give you access to the great works of literature, films, theatre and music from around the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...becomes poorer. The crop of Brexiteer politicians currently dominating British politics as well as seeming surprisingly incompetent also appear to be low in integrity. Their actions across the Brexit landscape violate standards of democratic accountability, trust and fairness in the pursuit of the ideological goals of eurosceptics and UKIP. Their mission also seems to be...
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Article 10 mins
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...students). It is the duty of every employee while at work to take reasonable care of himself (herself) and of other persons who may be affected by his (her) acts or omissions at work. The employees must cooperate with the employer with regard to health and safety procedures. This covers all types of employment within the United Kingdom. The Health and Safety at Work Act...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...OU student you are likely to have come across computer simulations, webinars and certainly online discussion forums (synchronous and asynchronous). It used to be assumed that technology-based training would be cheaper than face-to-face methods. However, both empirical and anecdotal evidence suggest that any savings associated with reduced travel costs and facilitator time...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...becoming in that setting and, as Jessica Oddy acknowledges, for us ‘to radically rethink ‘expert’ roles’ (Oddy, 2021). This does not exclusively apply to outsider researchers but also to those who might consider themselves already known or with pre-existing links to a research setting. This has been illustrated by Hanna Nikkanen (2019) reflecting on feeling like a...
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Article 30 mins
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...students who tried out voluntary work had to say about their experiences: What OU students say An inside view ‘I volunteered two days a week for the charity, Action for Sustainable Living. This gave me an inside knowledge of the charity and I built a strong relationship with staff members. When paid roles were made available, I had a clear advantage over other...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...becoming trivial occurrences in everyday life. Technology moves fast, but the means of understanding its movements do not, given the new media theory’s obligate and persistent homage to Deleuze’s early nineties programme. The gratuitousness of this reference today, combined with the lack of specificity concerning contemporary implementations of cybernetic modes of...
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Article 15 mins
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...become central to the critical enterprise. To this end, notions of a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008) have been developed. This area of critical criminology is concerned with the study of international crimes, harms, and violations that have an impact on a mass or global scale – for example, war crimes, torture, genocide, crimes against...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs