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Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...Education Quality Mark. You study eight straight-forward online sessions of 1-2 hours each with: plenty of step-by-step animations and practical tips to help you straight away real-life case studies featuring current school students and university students who reflect on their experiences living away from home for the first time useful videos from money experts There are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...technologies. After completing the course, you will be able to analyse, understand and use digital content, to assess information technologies critically, and to integrate digitally-driven methodologies and media to develop your own research...In this free course, Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age, you will learn how the digital transformation of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...technology has been developing since the invention of photovoltaic technology (which is the technology used in solar panels that convert solar energy to electricity) in the mid 1950s and, although still expensive, is now becoming increasingly viable for meeting a home’s energy requirements. To function effectively, however, solar panels need as much direct sunlight as...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...educate, to inform and to entertain. In Evan Davis, the BBC has found someone who can do all three with remarkable ease and wonderful effectiveness. The mission to education is what binds the OU and the BBC together, and it is also what links us with Evan Davis. Evan has been associated with a number of OU BBC productions in recent times. Currently, he is hosting another...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...educational preparation of practitioners. The concept of emotional resilience may be familiar to you in relation to children and adult service users (Gilligan, 2009; Smith and Hollinger-Smith, 2015). Simply defined, it refers to people’s capacity to constructively protect themselves – and rebound – from stress. In the workplace, stress is ‘the adverse reaction...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...education.’ NS: There will have to be substantial investment in different ways of doing things, but what we’ve seen over the last nine years since the stern review was published, very rapid falls in the costs of alternative technologies. I started work ten years ago on the Stern Review – the cost of a solar PV panel has come down by a factor of around ten in that...
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Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...technology rather than notation for the creation and dissemination of works. Other traditions, including many in the non-western world, have passed on musical practices and works largely through oral/aural communication. In spite of the technological developments listed above, the one form of communication which remains inherent to all our musical experiences is the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...technology, but about the system and the people within the system. When he trains healthcare professionals, he avoids using words like ‘risk’, which mean different things in medicine and engineering, and instead asks questions to get them thinking about the system. “We need to look through the eyes of the healthcare providers to see the challenges and to understand...
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Article 5 mins