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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...course will be open to all with the only prerequisite an interest in how to do development differently...This free short course addresses the key elements of designing a development intervention. Its approach to ‘doing development’ will be value led rather than technical. There is a wealth of material teaching a technical approach to development intervention. This...
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...course to do, surely. I think probably the Open University – maybe in particular, because of the nature of the way the University works and being a distance learning organisation – but organisations in general would probably benefit from just making that type of training and digital skills training mandatory. You can't really give people the option to dip in and out...
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...course will explore what workplace wellbeing means in a hybrid working world – whose responsibility it is, the challenges involved in creating and maintaining it, and the benefits it brings to your organisation...How is your workforce doing? What impact did the post-COVID-19 ‘pivot to online’ and the processes and practices that have followed have on staff...
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 2: Identity and participative practice in collaborative leadership: Introduction - This week’s learning is based on the two key dimensions of leadership that inform the course as a whole – identity and participative practice. Identity is a blend of how we think of ourselves and how others think of us –...
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...course is adapted from a former Open University course called 'Working with young people in practice (E118). Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence...
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...Open University course L194 Portales: beginners' Spanish...Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: take part in simple exchanges when buying food in shops or at the market in Spain understand basic information about prices and quantities in Spanish order food and drinks in a bar or restaurant using...
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course S384 Astrophysics of stars and exoplanets. ...The formation of exoplanets: Introduction - The idea that our Solar System may not be unique, and that there might be planets orbiting other stars (or exoplanets), has been around for a long time. Important principles that underpin exoplanet research today were...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...Open University course S193 Life in the Palaeozoic) and grateful thanks are extended to them and to all rights-owners for their permission. Thanks are also credited in the original publication for their kind help during production to: Dr Alan Smith, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge and Dr Norman Macleod, Natural History Museum, London. 58l, 58r, 59t,...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs