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Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the use of objects and museum activities can enhance pupil learning identify museum resources and support available to teachers, and understand the ways of accessing those...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...study in Science...Evolution through natural selection: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand that by biological evolution we mean that many of the organisms that inhabit the Earth today are different from those that inhabited it in the past understand that natural selection is one of several processes that can bring about...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...study of environments. Like any other estuary, the Blackwater brings together a diverse range of processes, elements and issues that constitute the environment. It offers us a way into thinking about how to approach the study of environments and why environmental questions are so pressing. By drawing on a variety of examples from the estuary we intend to convey how broad...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...studying this course, you should be able to: outline to what extent a person’s ‘lifestyle’ impacts upon their health and wellbeing describe how psychosocial (i.e. social, economic, cultural and political) factors influence a person’s health identify what government interventions have been developed to tackle a health issue, in particular obesity...Exploring...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...study in People, Politics & Law...Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: discuss the ways in which children are the victims of violence and the multiple effects that violence has on children, encompassing not only physical pain and injury but also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...studying or in training; this was due to insufficient language skills, not knowing what was available or they were entitled to, lack of child care or family commitments. (based on Bloch, 2002, pp. 1–3) These findings spell out clearly some of the barriers to citizenship as participation in social life...Who counts as a refugee?: 8.1 How is ‘knowledge’ about refugees...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...studying this course, you should be able to: consider what it means to be ‘an entrepreneur’ examine the role played by an entrepreneur’s family and friends reflect on the narratives (or ‘stories’) that entrepreneurs create...Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection: 1 Entrepreneurship: first impressions - Though it is easy to find a basic definition of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...skills so that you can go into your local neighbourhood to discover the animals and plants in open spaces. You will learn how to observe, identify and record the wildlife around you, building up a picture of a small part of your local environment...There is a fascinating world of nature all around us which we can see if we know how to look for it. Wherever you live, be it...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr