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Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...students are expected to be relatively independent learners, feedback comments have not been included for all the activities. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E809 Frameworks for critical practice with children and young people...Working with diversity in services for children and young people: Learning outcomes - After studying...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...become more isolated and lonely. And then that can affect their surrounding families and friends. And then it's obviously not good for their mental and physical health as well. SPEAKER 3 It’s the reduction of hormones, isn't it? So it would be maybe feeling very tired, mood swings, things like that. INTERVIEWER Are there any other symptoms that typically relate? SPEAKER...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...become adapted to spending part or all of their lives in water and it is these mammals that you are going to concentrate on in this course. You will meet some aquatic mammals, find out how we can study them, consider their evolutionary history and read about human impacts on one iconic group...Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes and yet all of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...students are encouraged to become critical thinkers about both how they undertake their own decisions, as well as how marketing influences our society...This free course, Marketing in the 21st century, offers a managerial perspective on how to deliver more effective marketing in an organisation, regardless of whether it is based in the private, public or non-profit...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...becomes important. [Described image] Figure 8 Examples of packaging designs that solve multiple problems to create successful design projects In many ways solving individual problems is relatively easy if the resources are available. What is often far harder is solving the right problems with the best solution(s). Part of the skill of a design engineer is not only...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...become familiar with some basic rules of German pronunciation. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course LGXG001 Beginners German 1: fang an!...Week 1: Hallo!: 1 Saying hello and goodbye - Figure 1 shows some greetings you might hear when visiting a German speaking county. Have you come across any of them before? Can you guess what they...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...OU course, viewing it should prepare you for your work in this course. It should also whet your appetite for further studies in this fascinating area! Activity 1 Watch the video clips below. Click below to view part 1 of the course introduction. Paula James voice-over The Classical world is a world of the past. But in numerous ways it's still present today. Exploring the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...students in mathematical and statistical problems today and it even appears in chemistry. It is known as Pascal's triangle (named after Blaise Pascal who was a 17th century French mathematician who studied the properties of this triangle) and the first part of it is shown below. [Figure 2] Figure 2 You can continue the triangle indefinitely by following the pattern. Each...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs