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Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is possible to study them at any time, and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are all available on The Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004, a European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2006, the British Association Charles Lyell Award Lecture 2006, and the Geological Society of London William Smith Fund 2008. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the Geological Society and the Society...
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Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...education in that process. That is interesting and useful. However, the traditional emphasis on the importance of social reformers and legislation should also not be ignored. In fact, this presents an opportunity for work on finding out what happened in Victorian Britain. Such an exercise is suggested in Activity 4. The point about Activity 4 is to direct attention to:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...education or culture, we are part of these things, for we live, think and communicate within them. Social science has to wrestle with the problem of human beings creating explanations about themselves and their society when they are part and parcel of that society. Even when social scientists think about and describe their theories and findings they use words, analogies...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...Education's Flexible Learning Fund, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and with the kind support of Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation. This course was written by Middlesbrough College in partnership with West Herts College, Bedford College Group and The Open University, in collaboration with Coleg Cambria, Addysg Oedolion...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...DES Data Encryption Standard PSTN public switched telephone DMZ demilitarised zone network DNS domain name system RC2 Rivest cipher 2 DSS Digital Signature Standard RC4 Rivest cipher 4 FTP file transfer protocol RSA Rivest, Shamir and IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Adleman block cipher Authority S-HTTP secure hypertext transfer ICMP internet control message protocol...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...education and skills survey. The most recently available at the time of writing (Roberts, 2023), received responses from nearly 300 employers, ranging in size from small companies with less than 50 employees to large organisations employing more than 55 000 people. Responses were drawn from all parts of the UK and covered all sectors. While the survey no longer...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...educational practice: critical considerations and applications in sports coaching’, Sport, Education and Society, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 513–31. Robertson, K. (2005) ‘Active listening: more than just paying attention’, Australian Family Physician, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 1053–1055...Session 3: How can effective communication enhance relationships?: Acknowledgements -...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs