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Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...Open University course K314 Approaches to mental health...Making sense of mental health problems: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe key theories and concepts that have informed debates about mental health diagnosis outline how diagnostic systems have been developed and implemented explain why diagnostic systems are challenged...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...open to all with the only prerequisite an interest in how to do development differently...This free short course addresses the key elements of designing a development intervention. Its approach to ‘doing development’ will be value led rather than technical. There is a wealth of material teaching a technical approach to development intervention. This course seeks to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...opens up new options for how we study the social world but also provides an opportunity for drawing upon a wider range of human knowledge and experience. Figure 1 illustrates the three main themes of this course. [Figure 1 Working your way through the course.] Figure 1 Working your way through the course. This course begins to explore what ‘science’ means, in relation...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...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 you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...sources...Besides being simple mementos, family photographs can offer insights into the past. This free course, Picturing the family, looks at some of the ways photographs can reveal, and sometimes conceal, important information about the past. It teaches the skills and provides some of the knowledge needed to interpret such pictorial sources....Picturing the family:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...Open University by visiting our online prospectus...School business manager: developing the role: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: review a job description for a business manager that takes account of today's context understand how a business manager can support teaching and learning and all stakeholders understand and use a range of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...open-mindedness towards ways of being that are different from what you understand as ‘normal’. An ethno-relative instead of an ethno-centric mindset is also crucial: An ethno-centric leads people to think that their familiar ways are superior to others, whereas an ethno-relative view enables you to switch perspectives without such judgement. Intercultural competence...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure 1: © The Open University and its licensors: including busuu https://www.busuu.com/; Twitter https://about.twitter.com/; Duolingo https://www.duolingo.com/; iTalki https://www.italki.com/. Created by Bryan Mathers http://bryanmmathers.com. Figure 2: © The Open University. Created by Bryan...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs