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The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...working with athletes of different ages? Are you a parent whose child has shown potential in sport? Perhaps you are an athlete looking ahead at your potential journey and choices through and beyond the sporting pathway? Whatever your involvement in sport, this course will help you understand the journey an athlete undertakes during their career, whether as a professional...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...works through price and innovation, and how different schools of thought theorise about their importance. You will also learn that firms can engage in anticompetitive behaviour and use their competitive advantage to deter competition, and how regulators work to impede this behaviour. This course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD320: Doing economics:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...working definitions, as you study this course. In Activity 1, you will examine your existing ideas about sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship and compare your views with those of existing organisations. The terms sustainable and sustainably are used in a variety of ways. Sustainable means being able to be used without being destroyed. Sustainability means...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...working to ensure this curriculum remains relevant for the twenty-first century. It is aimed at parents, faith and community group members and all others who might be interested in the purpose and content of religious education in schools...Religious Education is a statutory requirement for all school children in England. This course explores how the teaching and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...working among the middle classes used laboratory tests to help their diagnosis. Similarly, the development and marketing of small ‘kits’ containing all the equipment necessary to perform simple analyses of blood and urine suggests that some general practitioners applied to their practice the skills learned in the medical-school laboratory. Research has suggested that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...work sits alongside what the artist intended and what official culture designates in a discursive and often contested relationship. So in addition to the objects and practices of heritage themselves, we also need to be mindful of varying ‘perspectives’, or subject positions on heritage. The historian and geographer David Lowenthal has written extensively on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...work through the course, the key terms discussed are highlighted in bold. Definitions for these terms are provided in the glossary at the end of the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Arts and Humanities...What is poetry?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the common techniques underlying...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...working in Germany, by hearing them speak and watching video clips in which they talk about themselves and their lives. Hearing and watching people describe what they do and who they are can offer you an enjoyable and interesting insight into a way of life in a different culture. You will find that the more you watch and listen, the more you understand. Exposure to spoken...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs