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Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...system, or training to broaden your knowledge and enhance your future opportunities. Activity 5 Change and personal development Timing: Allow about 15 minutes Consider an example where change was required at work. This might have been a change of role, of teams, of ways of working, of technology or something else. Identify the change and what you and/or your employer did...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...systems and all of my previous experience had been on mainframe systems. So I just think it was, yes, the course was very significant in that it just gave me the confidence to apply for that particular job and it just turned out that my experience fitted very well to the company. Week 2 of this course includes a section on volunteering, which can be a useful way to get a...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...system during the last year, relative to the Sun, and how fast we earthlings are travelling? In order to estimate this it is necessary to make some assumptions: assume that the path of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is circular; the distance between the Earth and the Sun is approximately 92 860 000 miles, which is the radius of the orbit; distance travelled in one year...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...system of places that compose the metropolis. It is in these districts draped in a sulfurous aura, where social problems gather and fester, that the urban outcasts of the turn of the century reside, which earns them the disproportionate and disproportionately negative attention of the media, politicians, and state managers. They are known, to outsider and insiders alike,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...system (Kindt, 2015, p. 37). This means that the ancient Greeks did not consciously distinguish between these two terms as we do today in their everyday religious activity. As such, we can usefully look for elements of both ‘polis’ and ‘personal’ beliefs and practices within the same cult. This is the approach which will be adopted in this course, using the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...system of the person who you are talking with; maybe your own belief system means that the terms you use are consistent. You may have found yourself using humour to talk about death as a coping mechanism, or have been aware of others doing this. Many people adapt the way they talk about death depending on the context they find themselves in. An Open University academic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...system. I understood him to say that the effect was almost physical! "He said that he found it much easier to understand children, to get his mind into correspondence with their minds when he was fatigued with other work. Personally, I did not understand little children, and they seemed quite outside my experience, and rather incautiously I asked him if children never...
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Article 10 mins
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...systems of beliefs, values and ideas influencing the way they did things. In this way we can see the cultural beliefs and practices behind the things we do with our bodies as ‘cultural scripts’. This is a term that comes from linguistics and has a very specific meaning in that discipline, but here we mean something very similar to Bourdieu’s ‘habitus’. However,...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs