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What foster carers want you to know
Health, Sports & Psychology

What foster carers want you to know

...open their homes and hearts to children who cannot live with their own families, whether that be for a few days, weeks, months or even years. There can be many reasons why such situations arise, for example family illness, crisis, or situations where home isn’t safe. Fostering is unique in that it combines the responsibilities of parenting with professional duties, all...
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Article 5 mins
The benefits of social media in academia
Education & Development

The benefits of social media in academia

...Open University's Open degree Transcript For academic professionals or students, social media can provide a range of benefits that change and develop as social media platforms and associated technology continues to evolve. In this article we will explore the three core benefits: connection, communication and collaboration. Social media is widely used by individuals and...
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Video 5 mins
Digital Film School
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital Film School

...Open University’s experienced team of filmmakers, who will show you some of the craft secrets that underpin good filmmaking, and how professionals stay up to date. You will learn the basics of editing, how to conduct an interview, the role of the producer and other crew members and how to archive your finished project. This material forms part of The Open University...
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Video 1 hr 13 mins
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...open sets to open sets. Thus, if (X, TX) and (Y, TY) are homeomorphic, then not only are the elements of X and Y in one–one correspondence, but so also are their open sets. We can thus regard (Y, TY) as being essentially the same space as (X, TX), so far as its purely topological properties are concerned: (X, TX) and (Y, TY) are merely two different ways of presenting...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...Open University course A232 Music, sound and technology...Recording music and sound: Learning outcomes - By the end of this course you should be able to: appreciate the tasks required to organise and create commercial music demonstrate knowledge of the history of sound-recording technology recognise the impact of technological change on sound recording understand some of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...Open University course B867 Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring...Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the generic components of the traditional training lifecycle of the training needs analysis, or TNA (sometimes called a training needs assessment), design and...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...sources of complexity in how teams are constructed and led are: the need to work across organisational boundaries on issues of strategic importance to the service as a whole the need to work closely with other public service agencies – such as health, fire and rescue and social services – to tackle complex social and community problems. In the following video,...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...Source: Defra, 2013, p. 61) Figure 1 Consumption of fruit and vegetables in men, women and children in England, based on one 24 hour period The label of the graph provides the additional information that the figures are based on one 24 hour period (i.e. one particular day). When reading a chart such as a bar chart or pie chart, it is important to notice how the different...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs