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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...managed to isolate the antibiotic and mass produce the drug, something Fleming could not manage. Fleming was self-depreciating about his part in the development of penicillin but since he was the first to discover the properties of it he had the honour of naming it. By D-Day in 1944, enough penicillin had been produced to treat all the wounded soldiers with the Allied...
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Article 15 mins
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...managing the health and welfare of modern populations...While recognising the shadows cast by two world wars (one concluded and one imminent) over European society during the 1920s and 1930s, this free course, Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period, demonstrates how a number of specific features indicate that the interwar period was a distinctive and important...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...manage without them. The Open University is conducting a survey investigating how people use the free educational content on our OpenLearn website. The aim is to provide a better free learning experience for everyone. So if you have 10 minutes to spare, we’d be delighted if you could take part and tell us what you think Please note this will take you out of OpenLearn,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...Managers doing leadership: the extra-ordinarization of the mundane...Collective leadership: 3.2 Collective leadership in practice - You will now hear about real examples from two leaders in the voluntary sector. One is Ellie Garraway again, and the other is Clare Walton, who is a Chief Executive Officer of a charity. They both talk about collective leadership and the more...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Getting started with Jamovi
Health, Sports & Psychology

Getting started with Jamovi

...managing data, performing basic descriptive and inferential analyses, and interpreting results. It is ideal for beginners in data analysis or statistical software, including students, tutors, and researchers seeking accessible open-source tools. By the end, learners will gain confidence in applying statistical techniques to real-world data using Jamovi...Getting started...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...manager has to find ways to keep their players motivated; a personal trainer has to keep their customers motivated so they can achieve their goals despite only seeing them for two to three hours a week. An even greater challenge is workplace managers keeping their staff motivated and working towards the goals of the organisation without annoying them. This course...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...project at The Bionics Institute, Associate Professor Megan Munsie, a stem cell biologist and bio-ethicist from University of Melbourne and Dr Andi Horvath, a science communicator. Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies … We’ve already tried it – ethyl methanesulfonate - as an...
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The dark side of American populism in the Trump era
Society, Politics & Law

The dark side of American populism in the Trump era

...project as a “lost cause”. But the culture of white supremacy was far from defeated, and radical right-wing social movements and organisations have troubled the US ever since. The most notorious group, the Ku Klux Klan, was borne of Southern Democrats’ resentment of emancipation; over the years, it has been invigorated by other radical right groups founded on a...
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