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Soil as the book of nature
Nature & Environment

Soil as the book of nature

...Open The Book of Nature and read… here and there a chapter might be incomplete or you may not understand, but you can always learn about the past, the present and the future.” Indeed, my limited reading has found a lot of interesting chapters… What is soil? Technically defined, soil is a "natural body comprised of solids (minerals and organic matter), liquid, and...
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A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast
OpenLearn Ireland

A Peace of Us - The Good Friday Agreement Podcast

...Open University podcast discusses the ways in which The Good Friday Agreement changed our communities, arts, sports, and lives...Find out about The Open University's Politics courses. Episode 1: The role of the Arts in a post-conflict society Episode 1 host and guests [Photograph of our host, Jordan Keeny.] Host: Jordan Kenny, BBC Radio 1 Jordan Kenny’s a TV and radio...
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Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...Open Educational Resource Course: Teaching Secondary Music – Issues in Practice. Hello, I’m Gary Spruce. I’ve worked for many years in music education as a secondary school teacher and in initial teacher education. I learned that music is one of the most rewarding subjects to teach in secondary schools but also that it is one of the most challenging. For many young...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...Open University, you may wish to explore the courses we offer in this curriculum area. By using optical fibre, very high data rates (gigabits per second and higher) can be transmitted over long distances (tens of kilometres) without amplifiers or regenerators. Optical fibre has completely superseded copper wires as the primary medium for cabled transmission over long...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...Open University course DD310 Counselling and forensic psychology: investigating crime and therapy. [Described image] Figure 1 ‘Seeing the light’ by Sue Cheval...Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define mindfulness practise mindfulness in daily life understand how mindfulness can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...Open University in association with the Police Service of Northern Ireland. ...Empowering communities: Introduction - All communities have the capacity to grow and develop, but for some reason not all communities do so. In order to understand at least one of the reasons for behind this, this course will look at the topic of community empowerment. It will start by defining...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...Open University course K240 Mental health and community...Challenging ideas in mental health: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the complexity and dilemmas of diverse perspectives in the field of mental health and distress understand the importance of service users/‘survivors’ experiences and perspectives understand how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Assessment in secondary music
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary music

...Open University short courses for teachers and student teachers...Assessment in secondary music: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise the purposes and forms of assessment and their application in, and implications for, music education understand what to assess in music education promote assessment for learning in music education...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs