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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...Open University graduate, virtual intern 2019 All of the sources referenced here include communication in their lists, and it is really important to get that right when working remotely...Week 7: Experiencing a virtual internship: 5.1 Communication - During a virtual internship, you might be required to use a remote conferencing tool such as Skype, Zoom or Google Hangouts...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 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
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...Open University in collaboration with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). It is one of a series of courses which together focus on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing within the community. Through a scenario-based approach, this particular course draws together the various strands of learning from previous courses and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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
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
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...open new doors and create new ways of doing things, not simply those that fill gaps in existing ways of doing things (Mokyr, 1997). The core of the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century was a succession of technological changes that brought about material advances in three basic areas: (1) the substitution of mechanical devices (such as machines) for human...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...openness to progressive ideas that seemed, only 25 years ago, to finally have prevailed. Similar threats in the 20th century were ultimately reversed by the defeat of first fascism and then communism, but are now back. Only reinvigorated economic growth, better protection for the inevitable losers of globalisation and greater sympathy for their frustrations can ease their...
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The Science of Fear
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Science of Fear

...opens. He argued that an open mouth may have the advantage of allowing us to breathe more freely in preparation for 'fight or flight'. He had realised that many of the expressions we use, and the reactions we have to fear, have been conserved through the generations since prehistoric times - in fact, probably since before we were human. Together with cold sweats, the...
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Article 15 mins