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Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...change about their perception? Discussion Understanding how others perceive you, and how their viewpoint compares with your own, is a useful starting point for understanding your personal brand. From there you can decide whether your current brand aligns with how you want to be seen by others. Given our focus on the workplace, is that brand going to be useful in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...change in routine during a coaching session may be difficult to manage for some athletes. You may also have thought about how encountering new people in a session might influence how an athlete may communicate with their coach, or even their teammates. Prior to turning up to a coaching session, an athlete may have had an overwhelming experience at school or work which...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...changes that enable people to protect themselves, their children or other community members from infection; promote resistance to infection in the human host; isolate a source of infection to prevent it from being passed on; tackle an environmental source of infection consider a range of public health strategies, including unfamiliar examples, and identify the levels of...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...changed – and the role of interaction design has expanded accordingly. When computers became small and cheap enough to enter the general market, they became ‘personal computers’, such as the Apple II (Figure 1). Because of their size and weight, these computers would sit on desktops. Users would interact with them via a keyboard and a small, low-resolution display...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...changed from being a bare footnote to biblical studies (as in the Tower of Babel), to being a culture whose mathematical attainments put those of the Greeks of 1200 years later into a fresh perspective. The earliest understanding to emerge was that of the Babylonians' remarkable numeration system. This discovery was due, once again, to Henry Rawlinson, who in 1855 was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...change. President Dwight Eisenhower was reluctant to act, and the court did not actually set a timeframe in which schools would have to be desegregated. Figure 2: Portrait of Thurgood Marshall in the 1950s. The Supreme Court’s decision, however, did provide further impetus for Black people across the American South, encouraging many to resist racial discrimination. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...changing in modern, Western societies. Consider, for example, Figure 1 below, which presents evidence on white Americans’ levels of agreement with negative stereotypes about black Americans at three points in time. What does this figure show? What kind of historical changes does it convey? [Described image] (Dovidio and Gaertner, 1986, pp. 91-125) Figure 1 Historical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...changes you will make as a result of what you have learned! Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development. Once...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs