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Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...studying this course, you should be able to: identify the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet in health and social care evaluate your own use of online social networks and the implications of these for workers in health and social care evaluate the impact of the internet on the experiences of users of health and social care services...Social media and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...Studying children's literature allows us to learn not just about the books that children are reading, but also about what role reading plays in childhood, and how our ideas about childhood affect the books that they read. In this free course, you will be introduced to some of the key questions that the study of children's literature raises, such as: how do children...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...studying this course, you should be able to: identify and describe the meaning of employee engagement and its different components appreciate the strategic issues associated with employee engagement describe the changes in systems of employee relations appreciate the impact of structures of management and ownership on employee engagement reflect on the current state of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the input–process–output framework, the extensions of it, and apply them to a wide range of operations examine the types of transformation processes occurring within operations define the roles and responsibilities of operations managers and the challenges they face reflect on your own operations management...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise an increased interest in exploring the history of reading understand a range of examples of research into the history of reading use RED to follow up any personal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...studying this free course, Dutch painting of the Golden Age, you will discover that there is much more to Dutch painting than meets the eye. You will explore scholarly debates about the possible meanings that might be attributed to this type of picture and learn how the very idea of ‘realism’ in art has been challenged in recent times...Seventeenth-century Dutch...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...study and gives some insight into the study of history you might undertake if you were to study the MA in History (A883/4)....What do historians do?: Introduction - What do you imagine when you think of a historian? Figure 1 shows Asa Briggs (1921–2016), an influential and successful historian, a Cambridge and London University graduate, former soldier, codebreaker at...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...study in Education, Childhood & Youth...Motivation and factors affecting motivation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define the term ‘motivation’ appreciate different views of how people are motivated apply different theories to an individual’s motivation...Motivation and factors affecting motivation: 1 Motivation - The study...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs