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Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...management in areas where transmission persists. Migrant workers and travellers in affected regions should also be vaccinated to prevent spread of the virus. Countries and areas with strong travel links to affected countries and with a local vector, such as China, should implement outbreak preparedness by improving surveillance and stockpiling emergency vaccinations. Read...
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Article 5 mins
Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...project team leader). The desired goal may have originated in a review meeting or feedback session, but coaching has been shown to be most effective if run as separate sessions, at times when both coach and coachee can be present in both mind and body. Using the OSCAR Model The coach and the coachee start by discussing the issue/situation/goal, as well as establishing a...
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Article 10 mins
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...Introduction - The purpose of this course is to demonstrate how the UK Reading Experience Database (RED) can be used in a study of the reading habits of a writer, and how this information can be used in a literary study of that writer’s own writing. To this end we will be focussing on the reading experiences of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee. This course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...Introduction - You’ll start this course by focusing on shopping, both online and in store. You’ll learn useful language for shopping, such as items of clothing, colours, and how to ask for help. You’ll also learn how to express preferences, ways of asking for and giving permission, and how to apologise. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...Introduction - Human societies have to take urgent action to end their dependence on fossil fuels. They also have to prepare to adapt to the uncertainties inherent in global environmental changes, particularly climatic ones. We have to alter the whole path of our development and decision making in order to make our societies both environmentally adaptable and sustainable....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...management and planning land use. The dawn of the Common Era saw census taking in China and throughout the Roman Empire. Although the Domesday Book of 1086 thoroughly surveyed England, the emphasis there was more on cataloguing land and property than generating population estimates. The modern age of census taking began two hundred years or so ago. In England,...
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Video 30 mins
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...Introduction - There are many approaches to using film music in the classroom, including: a focus on pupil experience; a focus on the structure of composition; a focus on the relationship between music and image; This course will explore some of these approaches through various activities. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...Introduction - Our Open qualifications are one of the most popular pathways of study at The Open University (OU). These qualifications allow you to combine different subjects in your qualification, enabling you to see how they can relate, connect and even influence each other. This is also known as multidisciplinary study. There are a number of modules and qualifications...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs