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Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...a digitally-informed and empowered school leader and learn how to help your school respond more effectively to technology-driven change through COVID-19 and beyond. This free course will help secondary school leaders make decisions about the provision and use of online learning. School leaders in secondary education need to plan digital strategies, devise plans and
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...students can view the law as technical and difficult to learn, which is usually based on the belief that studying law involves remembering an endless series of rules. However, the content of law changes over time and is not a fixed body of rules that they are expected to learn and recite. What is important for students of social work to learn is the underlying principles...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...the information you consume...BBC News 24, Sky News, CNN. We live in an era where news has become almost instantaneous. This free course, IT: Information, will look at how news is gathered and the technology that's used for its dissemination. You will also be encouraged to examine how information might be manipulated by questioning its reliability....IT: Information: Introduction - This course looks at the technologies used ......
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...become essential to children’s learning in primary schools across the UK and further afield. Whatever your learning support role in schools may be, you are part of this historic development. For convenience, we have adopted the generic term ‘teaching assistant’ throughout this unit. We use these words in preference to ‘TAs’, which, we feel, is reducing of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...become obsessed with the purchase and collection of material things, so much so that some have even questioned the impact of such acquisitive habits upon the sustainability of the planet. Activity 1 The films below were made by three different members of the course team and provide interesting insights into why we might study objects in the first place. People acquire and...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...become objective and value-free?...Why maps are made: 2.1 How do we use maps? - Reading about maps, I have been struck by the number of times that the idea of ‘maps as part of our everyday experience’ has been mentioned. In fact, I was thinking about it recently, when I was preparing to travel from Belfast to London. I left home with a mental map of my journey to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...become what they want to be, to create themselves. However, some people are arguably more restricted than others in their self-creation by the way in which others categorise and perceive them. These ideas provide useful context to exploring Simone de Beauvoir’s thesis that women’s freedom is affected by the way they are perceived, and indeed the way they perceive...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs