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Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping students achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping student achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...children who are in employment up 9% since 2000 – have added to pressures on households too. More families are having to care for both their children and their parents at a time when their free time is limited (ONS, 2019). That’s why the Open University, in collaboration with Legal & General, has created your Midlife MOT to help you. We have a wealth check-up. It’ll...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...Centre for Policing Research and Learning, many of whom are also involved – through research and course development – in expanding the field with new knowledge about public leaders and their work. We would like to express our sincere gratitude for their commitment and enthusiastic participation in the making of this course. While the principal aim of the course has...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators
Society, Politics & Law

Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators

...research as part of Operation Soteria. Police officers and staff involved in the investigation of rape and sexual violence were interviewed in five forces in England and Wales during 2021–2022. Officers investigating rape cases reported being exposed to trauma and reported high levels of burnout given high demand and reduced capacity to deal with complex investigations....
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Article 5 mins
A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture

...researcher exploring cultural differences and education – the kind of culture that I am referring to, well, that has proven harder to pin down. Psychologists, philosophers and anthropologists have been arguing about the definition of culture for years, so little old me in my home office in lockdown can perhaps be forgiven for not having the perfect definition, but here...
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Article 15 mins
Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work
History & The Arts

Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work

...children with the tops of their heads aflame caught my attention, and held it. They would always have written, I believe, but thank goodness they eventually published – despite being women, despite not having money, despite living elsewhere than the south of the country – too! Take part in our Quiz: Which Brontë ​sister wrote it Explore the OU/BBC drama on the...
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Article 5 mins
A reader's guide to Holes
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Holes

...children. A film adaptation was released in 2004, with Sigourney Weaver as the sinister Warden and Jon Voight playing an odious guard, Mr Sir. The author has said that his main aim in his books is to make them enjoyable. The moral element has to be secondary to the pleasure provided. Certainly, despite the suffering it describes, ‘Holes’ manages to be a humorous novel...
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Article 5 mins