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Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...research on the dynamics of employee engagement in the working population of the UK. It suggests that engagement is strongly influenced by such factors as the life stage and size of companies. While reading, make some notes and consider the question: to what extent does this reflect your experience? The time of your life Brown, A., Roddan, M., Jordan S. and Nilsson, L....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...research and expertise from early childhood academics at The Open University and professionals at Early Years Wales...The first two years of a child’s life are a time of incredible change and development. This free course helps practitioners to understand these changes and explore how they can support babies and toddlers in early childhood settings. This course draws on...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...research methods and theoretical approaches. This diversity can make it difficult for those coming to criminology for the first time to locate the theoretical underpinnings or disciplinary roots of particular criminological perspectives. In order to situate the ideas that are associated with ‘critical’ or ‘radical’ criminology, we include here a very brief...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...research has found that 70-80% of one’s ageing rate, up until age 80, is largely determined by non-genetic environmental factors". General recommendations for ageing well and keeping good nutritional habits are: Enjoyable and varied food with plenty of fruit and vegetables, enough fibre, reducing salt intake, keep an eye on having enough vitamins in our diet, Get enough...
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Video 10 mins
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...Research, which found that ‘not all low-income families use consumer credit or get into debt, but poverty and job insecurity increase vulnerability to debt problems’ (Ben-Galim and Lanning, 2010). The study goes on to note that ‘job insecurity and fluctuations in income and expenditure can expose poorer households to debt problems’ (Ben-Galim and Lanning, 2010)....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...research and development communications networks, can do as much to advance debate and action on sustainability as it can for the profit margins of immense global companies. Once the capacity for networks exists, they cannot easily be owned, directed, managed or, above all, predicted. This is what makes it impossible to capture what is going on in the world. This section...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...research into the topic demonstrate that communication and working relationships are a complex set of social skills and behaviours (e.g. Bowes and Jones, 2006). However, here in this course, it is broken down into parts – thereby making it easier to study – and you will revisit this video in Session 2 to make further sense of it. Right now, at the beginning of this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...research the history of the following concepts that are commonly used in geography: biodiversity globalisation sustainable development. Are there other concepts you can think of that have emerged or significantly changed recently? Comment There will be a long list of possible answers but you could have answered something like this: Biodiversity provides an example of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs