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Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the 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 ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...course is part of a collection of Open University short courses for teachers and student teachers...Teaching secondary modern foreign languages: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate some of the factors that have had an impact on how the importance of language learning is perceived list some of the ways that target language can...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Open University course : SDK228 The science of the mind: investigating mental health...From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise definitions and applications of key terms relating to mental health understand and apply basic grammatical terminology describe briefly the different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course EE815 Understanding literacy: social justice and inclusive practice...Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand key concepts associated with the study of literacy recognise some of the contested positions in relation to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...opened this course, what might it involve? As a teacher, you could get a class to think critically about this in more detail. The document Defining global corporate citizenship gives two definitions to begin with. Click ‘view document’ below to download Defining global corporate citizenship View document...Teaching citizenship: work and the economy: 3 ‘Acts’ and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course S350 Evaluating contemporary science. It was produced for OpenLearn by Richard Holliman (Sections 1–5), Phil Wheeler (Section 6) and Simon Collinson (Sections 7–9)...Assessing contemporary science: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: critically evaluate statements,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...Open University course DD213 Environment and society....Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements: Introduction - Wildfire is fire out of human control. More specifically, the United Nations Environment Programme has defined wildfires as ‘an unusual or extraordinary free-burning vegetation fire which may be started maliciously, accidently, or through natural...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru
Money & Business

Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru

...courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for those goals.’ Andrews (1971) ‘Every business organisation, every sub-unit of an organisation and even every individual (ought to) have a clearly defined set of purposes or goals that keep it moving in a deliberately chosen direction and prevent it drifting in an undesired direction.’ Porter (1985) ‘A...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs