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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...Open University Twitter account. Each week, we'll be tweeting key milestones from the 1979 election campaign that correspond with the 2015 election countdown. Here on OpenLearn, you'll find a wealth of content from our academics comparing and contrasting the two events as well as some interesting archive materials. Anyone fancy reading Thatcher's beauty tips, for example?...
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...
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...
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...
Level 1: Introductory 8 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,...
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...open to many interpretations. The quality, reliability and authenticity of evidence always needs to be probed for potential bias, limits and blind spots. In this course we will be focusing mostly on the variety of methods for presenting and organising qualitative and quantitative evidence. So, we will focus on how to understand the ways in which evidence is presented, how...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...Open University course S296 Cell and molecular biology...Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: outline some of the key principles of microscopy (with a focus on fluorescent microscopy) and the differences between light, fluorescence (light) and electron microscopy describe some...
‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
Society, Politics & Law

‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

...Open University's History and Social Sciences qualification. Background The public, political and cultural representations of working-class activism in opposition to industrial closure are dominated by the image of the militant male worker. Leaders like Jimmy Reid, Arthur Scargill and high-profile disputes by miners, shipyard workers, car workers, steel workers and others...