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Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...feedback, inform future work, and have the (optional) opportunity to get more involved if you are interested. You do not need to have finished studying this course in order to take the survey. The course will take approximately 15 hours to complete, divided up into 5 weeks, each of which follows a standard pattern to make it easier to plan your time. As you work through...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...feedback from the employer as to why you did not get the job. This can range from not having enough relevant experience on your CV, to the quality of answers you gave at interview, or simply that they had a very large and strong range of applicants. Hopefully they can give you some useful information (if not, you can always ask) which you can then take forward for other...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...Class (Veblen, 1912) he suggested that it can be important to show off your wealth by means of conspicuous consumption. The rich can demonstrate their wealth by buying goods that are widely known to be very expensive and beyond the reach of most consumers. The term Veblen goods is used to denote luxury items, such as exclusive jewellery, cars or designer clothes which may...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...class is ‘major tranquillisers’; examples are chlorpromazine, thioridazine and haloperidol.) Following the thalidomide crisis in the UK in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when over 6,000 children were born with severe disabilities because of a drug administered to their mothers during pregnancy, a system of routine reporting of any adverse effects of prescribed drugs...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...feedback and suggestions to improve the experience for other learners....Week 1: Histology: Introduction - Welcome to this Open University course on histology. This course is designed for students studying human biology at school or university, medical laboratory scientists and anyone interested in biomedical science. Histology is the study of tissues and their structure,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...La Coruña, Spain, first century CE, Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España...The many guises of the emperor Augustus: 3.5 Roman military dress - At the opposite end of the scale to the toga, which signalled civilian life, was military dress. Activity 4 Timing: Allow around 5 minutes for this activity How might you know someone is a member of the military today?...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...feedback. Enquiry and YPG approaches to learning value what young people bring in terms of personal geographies and questions, and they encourage students to investigate their own questions and environments. Students construct knowledge and understanding for themselves. In this way, geography can be meaningful and connected to their lives, and young people develop the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...feedback to the people you interviewed. In this section we will cover: Making reflective fieldnotes Uploading/sending files Storing data Anonymisation options Feeding back to interviewees...Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction: 4.1 Making reflective fieldnotes - Writing up reflections is an important part of any researcher’s job. Fieldnotes serve three...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs