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Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...classed as ‘non-marketable’ assets. A third way of categorising assets is perhaps the most important for personal finance. This is dividing up assets according to how ‘liquid’ they are. Liquid assets are those that can be converted into cash easily and readily. The most liquid asset is cash. Other liquid assets include the balance on a current account or a savings...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...class, etc. RH: Surely that is a mistake, because there was the report out recently, the Calderón Report, a follow-up to Nick Stern’s report into climate economics, making it really clear that we are only going to solve climate change if we have new forms of development in countries in the South, so that’s exactly where the emphasis needs to go and the great global...
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Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...class and cultural assumptions – for example, that eye contact is a good thing to encourage, that families will have warm housing so babies can lie without clothes on, and that there is enough money around to choose particular baby-attracting furnishings for the home. Families who are part of some ethnic groups prefer to wrap their babies close to the body, and some may...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...classes, we will ask people to practise skills at home for 20 minutes each day.’ Following this text there is a bullet-pointed list beginning: ‘We will help you to: use helpful coping skills’, a lengthier bullet-pointed list is implied but is unseen by the viewer] Figure 1 The information sheet above (Figure 1) was created for illustrative purposes in that it was an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Get started with Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This course was written by Maria Townsend/The Open University STEM faculty. It was first published...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...class of brain chemicals called brain growth factors may play an important part in this. Such chemicals ‘nurture’ existing neurons and promote neurogenesis. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), one of these brain growth factors, is known to operate in many areas of the brain, and significantly for our purposes, this includes the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain

...De Stobbeleir (2022), mae gweithio mewn amgylchedd gweithio hybrid yn gofyn mwy na chysylltiad Wi-Fi da a chadair swyddfa ergonomig yn y cartref’. Rhaid i arweinwyr gydnabod y bydd angen sgiliau gwahanol i gefnogi eu cyflogeion a’r rheolwyr. Mae cyfarfodydd hybrid – i adeiladu pontydd rhwng y rheini yn y swyddfa a’r rheini sy’n gweithio gartref – yn anodd; nid...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...de los Arcos, B., Farrow, R., Perryman, L.A., Pitt, R. and Weller, M. (2014) ‘OER Evidence Report 2013–2014’, OER Research Hub [online], http://oro.open.ac.uk/ 41866/ (accessed 1 July 2019). Downes, S. (2001) ‘Learning objects: resources for distance education worldwide’, IRRODL, vol. 2, no. 1 [online], http://www.irrodl.org/ index.php/ irrodl/ article/ view/...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs