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Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...study of online research into information on childhood vaccination, you will see how computer algorithms can shape our beliefs and actions. You will also be introduced to the field of digital forensics and learn how data are stored on and deleted from hard disk and solid-state drives. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University courses TM111...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...skills for work, study and everyday life. The course has four sessions, which cover the following topics: numbers, measurement, shapes and space, and handling data. There will be plenty of examples to help you progress, together with opportunities to practise your understanding. A Welsh-language version of this course is also hosted on OpenLearn Cymru. Everyday maths 1...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...studying this course, you should be able to: reflect on the link between the role of HR and HR practice and EDI discuss how EDI is important to organisations and how each element supports, but is different from, the others debate how and why EDI relates to the role of a professional HR practitioner understand key HR policies and training in relation to EDI...Human...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...study in Psychology...The body: A phenomenological psychological perspective: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of fundamental aspects of the theory and methodology underpinning phenomenological psychology critique simplistic mind–body, individual–social and agency–structure dualisms and appreciate...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...studies. By the end of the course you will have gained knowledge about strategies that will help you to understand how to support and improve the wellbeing of either yourself or a carer you know...Are you a carer? Or do you work with a carer, or know someone who is one? This free course, Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role, is designed to give an...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...study for the Foresight Project looked at 63 cities across the UK. One finding was that the fastest growing cities over the past three decades were the new towns like Milton Keynes that had been deliberately planned and developed through post-war public policy. “In these cases, everything to do with a new settlement could be thought about holistically – an argument...
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Article 5 mins
Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...study [1] found that a global tree planting effort aimed at increasing tree cover by 0.9 billion hectares would help to remove two-thirds of all human-produced carbon dioxide. But amid the clamour for more trees, for the many people involved in looking after trees and woodlands the over-riding concern is that we aren’t taking enough care of our existing trees. Part of...
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Article 10 mins
STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...study. In 2010 ASTiP launched a specific Postgraduate suite of qualifications for STiP, with now over 1200 students having studied our core STiP modules. The ASTiP group and our PG alumni, drawing on ASTiP-led scholarship and action research initiatives from 2014, took a lead role in establishing a Trailblazing Group with the UK Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical...
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Video 10 mins