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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Certificates. What’s new from OpenLearn? Sign up to our newsletter or view a sample. For reference, full URLs to pages listed above: OpenLearn – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses Visiting our online prospectus – www.open.ac.uk/ courses Access Courses – www.open.ac.uk/ courses/ do-it/ access Certificates – www.open.ac.uk/ courses/ certificates-he Newsletter...
Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...certificates 7 7 11 7 7 11 9 Bachelor’s degree with Honours 6 6 10 6 6 10 8* Ordinary Bachelor’s degrees 6 6 9 6 6 9 7 Graduate diplomas 6 6 9 6 6 9 6 Graduate certificate 6 6 9 6 6 9 6 Source: based on QAA (2015b) Footnotes Abbreviations: EQF: European Qualifications Framework; FHEQ: Framework for Higher Education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; FQHEIS:...
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...certificate and you can move on to the next. The kids in the small groups trialling this program have found that in a short time their scores are not simply improving, they are rocketing. Now this project is a little different from the similar schemes we've seen before, because it caught the attention of researchers at Nottingham University in the UK, and they wanted to...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...certificates as that of title deeds. They encourage people to look down rather than up in reconstituting their roots, ‘not to establish links with the noble and great’... (Samuel, 1994, p. 160) Samuel was quick to emphasise heritage not only as a potentially democratic phenomenon, but also to see in the social practices surrounding heritage the possibility for...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...certificate course through the county council, which has taught him how to be a youth worker, and that’s done independently of us by County Hall, then we have a training department. He’s worked with them, and that’s a one-year training course where he did a whole series of activities that are work-focused, but also formalised theoretical stuff, and he does that with...
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...certification and tax relief. To find out more about the value chain, you can read this OpenLearn article by Hilary Collins, ‘Porter’s value chain and the business of film’...Week 1: The value of film: Acknowledgements - This course material was originally written for FutureLearn in 2015. It was published on OpenLearn in February 2019. Except for third party...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...certificate records that she died of pneumonia on 21 September 1888. (Remember the importance of checking apparently reliable sources.) Maud's father was a grocer and the family lived at Cross Roads, Bingley, near Keighley in Yorkshire. The photographer, W. Smith, was local and therefore readily available. His work suggests that he was not a high-class
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...certificate or diploma (such as a Certificate of Higher Education in Language Studies (T21), or Diploma of Higher Education in Language Studies (W41)). If you’re already registered to study French at the OU: you’ll find further information and resources on your subject website, which you can access through your StudentHome page...Week 8: Get ready!: Tell us what you...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs