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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...learning can be facilitated to match the demands for adapting, placed on people and organisations by the demands of twenty-first-century contexts. Therefore, this current ever-evolving world of work has many positive aspects and opportunities, including: A career that may involve several different jobs and employers, continually developing skills while providing new...
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Article 10 mins
A brief history of sex education
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of sex education

...learn little of what we know about sex from our schooling. We learn it from friends, from family and, increasingly, from the media. In England from the late 19th century, a number of sex education publications were produced, mainly aimed at helping parents to enlighten their children. However, in school, little formal school sex education took place before the Second...
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Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: use relative frequencies to estimate probabilities calculate conditional probabilities calculate posterior probabilities using Bayes’ theorem calculate simple likelihood functions describe the role of the posterior distribution, the likelihood function and the posterior distribution in Bayesian...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Depression, mood and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Depression, mood and exercise

...learning a foreign language in the primary school. Most of us have done that, but if we don’t practice the language (not just spoken, but also reading and writing), we will most probably lose it, quickly. Depression or other mental health syndromes do not tend to get better with ageing so the sooner we start helping our body and mind to feel better through regular...
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Croeso: Beginners' Welsh
Languages

Croeso: Beginners' Welsh

...learn more about Wales, the Welsh people and the Welsh language in the free course Discovering Wales and Welsh: first steps, which is based on the Open University course LG001 Discovering Wales and Welsh. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Croeso:...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Part 1: Understanding concepts of STiP: Introduction - Part 1 Understanding concepts of STiP introduces basic principles of systems thinking as a constructivist endeavour...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...learning (including its professional application) and the collaborative co-creation of knowledge between participants studying the Masters modules. If you choose to go on to study any of the Masters modules, you will be able to adapt the knowledge gained from studying this badged course to your own thinking about ethics in the context of research design and development as...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...learning further? You might find it helpful to explore the Open University’s Social Work courses and qualifications. The authors of this course wish to thank the Hallmark Foundation for funding this work and for their faith in its value. [Hallmark Foundation. Age well, every step of the way.]...Introducing relational care: Introduction - Much of the news about...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs