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European Day of Languages
Languages

European Day of Languages

...resources about language learning. So, what are you waiting for? Test your language skills How to learn a language Exploring English Language for work and travel What can learning languages do for you? Let more real Open University Language students tell you Why study language? Discover 9 reasons to learn a foreign language Try our language courses for free! Study with...
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What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...humanities and social sciences definitive answers are difficult to come by. What politics is and equally, who does it, and where it is done are hotly debated and highly contested. This OpenLearn course will introduce you to some of these debates, and their implications for the study and practice of politics...This free course, What is politics?, introduces you to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...human life and illness and on the costs of environmental harm. Certainly the area of environmental economics is a developing one but it will not be considered further here. The first detailed study of the cost of accidents was made in 1931 by Heinrich (see Heinrich, 1990). By examining many thousands of insurance records and interviewing many staff he derived a...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...resources, teachers and support staff are making packed lunches, some even delivering them, and in playgrounds sports equipment that has gone dusty has found a new purpose, then there are the teachers wrestling with Google classrooms to get their learning rapidly online. Research from the Sutton Trust reports that by the start of April 2020, 34% of children from...
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What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...resources Vseteckova, J., Borgstrom, E., Whitehouse, A., Kent, A. and Hart, A. (2021) Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share Gale, B. (2022) How can we prepare for death while ageing? (Ageing Well Public Talk Series related) Gale, B. (2022) Valuing death at home: making preparations What to do when someone dies (gov.uk resource) Ageing Well...
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What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...resources, open education and open science. “Open Science is the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods” - Foster The open movement...
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The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...resources and courses offers the most flexible way for carers to study around their caring commitments. We also have a strong and ongoing commitment – underpinned by a robust research programme – to meeting carers’ needs and continually develop our evidence-based systems to ensure we are ideally placed to help carers access and succeed in education. For example, we...
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How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...resources (thus not “Cheap”) and time (thus not “Fast”) to its process, and as a result it ended up with a substantially better final product than many of the jurisdictions that either rushed programs out the door, or tried to repurpose existing resources without thoughtful investment in a field of growing importance. The desire for quick and low cost answers to...
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