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Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...change in your teaching. Good luck. Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development. Once you are signed in, you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...changes brought about by information technology will affect every one of us. You may be wondering what digitial technology is and just what is meant by having a digital life. A fundamental idea is that digital technology is any technology based on representing data as sequences of numbers. Computers use digital technologies; so the for benefit of this unit the term...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...changing their hygiene rating score to purple to show the allergy community that those serving food on these premises have acquired the right level of food allergy education. They feel such an initiative has the potential to create cultures of safety, create inclusive practices, offer more choice, and uphold their social freedoms to dine out of home safely. Additionally,...
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Audio 2 hrs
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...change our profession’, SimpliFaster. Available at: https://simplifaster.com/articles/artificial-intelligence-developments-coaching/. FasterCapital (2025) ‘Sport coaching AI: game changing: how sport coaching AI is revolutionizing team performance;, FasterCapital. Available at:
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Article 5 mins
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...changes in schools. He talks about the reduction in class sizes that was a pledge made by Labour at the 1997 election, and the baseline assessment tests. He suggests that the children who do least homework also watch the most television, but you can't see that from the figures given in the diagram. While the two activities do seem to be related, it is possible, for...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...change depending on the circumstances. For example, performance can mean different things to different people. For one it may refer to a hard measure such as levels of sales. For another it may include good relationships with customers. According to this latter view, a researcher can only take a subjective perspective because the nature of these concepts is the result of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...change in the surrounding water. (Burning food is chemically similar to the ways in which our bodies break food down, despite being much faster and less controlled.) Versions of Andrews’s ‘bomb calorimeter’ are used to measure the calories in food today. At the Beltsville centre, samples of the meatloaf, mashed potatoes and tomato juice have been incinerated in the...
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Video 5 mins
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...change is sustained...This free course, Understanding service improvement in healthcare, will help you to understand what people mean by the terms ‘service’ and ‘improvement’ in relation to healthcare. The course will help you to think about how those involved in healthcare, whether as practitioners or service users, can monitor the progress of any initiative to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs