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Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the various ways in which communities can be empowered appreciate the key elements of community empowerment understood the barriers and incentives to community empowerment reflect on the various forms of stakeholder engagement consider ways in which empowered communities can deal more effectively with crime and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Croeso: Beginners' Welsh
Languages

Croeso: Beginners' Welsh

...skills in order to communicate more easily and effectively in Welsh. The course focuses on basic greetings and introductions, numbers and days of the week. By the end of the course you will have gained confidence in communicating in Welsh, and you will be able to understand language used by speakers from different areas of Wales. You will develop the four language skills...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...skill and reflexivity. Furthermore, social and technological systems create ways of knowing that are caught up in the processes by which they remain coherent; because knowledge and social life are self-referential, their inequalities can seem self-evident, natural or even beneficial. The corollary is that inventing new ways to know the world allows that world to be...
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Article 5 mins
The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care

...skills and experience. At The Open University, we have argued that the move to an all graduate profession is a step in the right direction, as this will better equip nurses to respond to the increasingly complex care situations in which they practice. While there have been some recent examples of the way in which nursing has struggled to meet some of the essential care...
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Article 5 mins
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...skills in critical visual analysis based on the study of selected images of Renaissance art understand the geographical, political and commercial forces that set Venice at the centre of a broad network of trade and power relations and the complex ways these were reflected in Venetian art and architecture...Art in Renaissance Venice: Renaissance Art Reconsidered - This...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Teachers sharing resources online: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the benefits of resource sharing to creators (teachers), their institutions, their pupils and to those who use the resources evaluate a range of resource sharing sites for suitability to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...study in Management...How teams work: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the issues and processes that relate to team formation and development in a virtual context identify barriers to effective team work in a virtual environment and propose solutions review and comment on team activities in a virtual environment and develop...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...skills, decision-making, problem-solving). It illustrates some examples of reconfiguring of resources, shifting in perspective and balancing between competing aspects, values, and goals. Jan is demonstrating flexibility and recognising that with job offers, there is some room for negotiation that would enable a more flexible arrangement that would work for her, enabling...
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Article 10 mins