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Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...course explores how environmental and social factors interact to cause wildfires and shows why these interactions need to be considered when preparing for future wildfires. Focusing on the 2007 wildfires in Greece, this course introduces students to the geographical concept of entanglement as a tool for exploring these interrelated factors. Using the ideas of the...

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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs

Money & Business

Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru

...courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for those goals.’ Andrews (1971) ‘Every business organisation, every sub-unit of an organisation and even every individual (ought to) have a clearly defined set of purposes or goals that keep it moving in a deliberately chosen direction and prevent it drifting in an undesired direction.’ Porter (1985) ‘A...

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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs

Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...course, A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora), will support anyone based in an education setting to develop an understanding of effective mentoring of beginner teachers in the initial teacher education and newly qualified phases. It has been designed using the experiences of colleagues working within the Welsh education system, but the messages about the principles of...

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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs

Health, Sports & Psychology

Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl

...Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. Ffigur 1: © Inga Spence/Alamy Peidiwch â cholli’r cyfle: Os ydych chi wedi cael eich ysbrydoli i gael gwybod mwy trwy ddarllen y testun hwn, efallai y bydd gennych ddiddordeb mewn ymuno â'r miliynau o bobl sy’n darganfod ein cymwysterau a’n hadnoddau dysgu drwy ymweld â'r Brifysgol Agored - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...

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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs

Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...course looks at Scotsman John Napier (1550-1617) and his invention which radically altered the course of mathematics. Napier dabbled in mathematics for over 40 years and near the end of his life he introduced his tables of logarithms which drastically reduced the work needed to do complicated calculations, such as those required in astronomy and navigation. Napier’s...

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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs

Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...course Teaching Spanish pronunciation.This short course is aimed at teachers of Spanish working in the United Kingdom who wish to extend their theoretical knowledge on teaching Spanish pronunciation. It offers ideas and practical skills that can be used in the classroom, be that virtual or face-to-face. This course will explore intelligibility, fluency, foreign accent,...

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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs

Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...course, Remaking the relations of work and welfare, looks at how participation in, and drop-out from, 'workfare' programmes are interpreted within different theoretical perspectives, and uses two case studies to connect the theory with the reality of people's lives...How do 'welfare to work' programmes such as the New Deal take into account and shape people's personal...

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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs

History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...course, Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy, will introduce you to some of the possible answers to these questions and will examine why philosophy has sometimes found it difficult to approach imagination. It will then go on to examine the relationship that imagination has to imagery and supposition, charting where these concepts overlap with imagination and...

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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs

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