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Gain a badge and further your career
Money & Business

Gain a badge and further your career

...Open University offers a range of free badged courses on OpenLearn all geared towards helping you with employability and your career? ...[The word Impossible becomes I'm possible] On OpenLearn you can find a range of courses aimed at improving employability skills. Many of these courses offer you the chance to gain a digital badge on completion of the course, which you...
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Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...opening up and offered a new possibility for taking up those world-disclosing issues. You could create content which opened up ideas in a way that were being closed down on conventional mainstream broadcast. So I could see that panning out and that was an exciting possibility that I wanted to pursue. How has online TV evolved? I think the changes that have happened in...
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Martin Holt On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Martin Holt On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...education courses in 1991 having first come across the concepts as part of his postgraduate OU studies in Manufacturing. Martin describes his approach to STIP as: “A Curious person. I try to follow the adage of learning something new every day though these days it’s more about trying to remember something I’ve forgotten. What approaches and sectors have I used? –...
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Bodies in transition – children starting school
Education & Development

Bodies in transition – children starting school

...educators and teaching staff. I explored the perspectives of six children using three different methods. I observed them in their first few weeks in school as they experienced events such as their first lunchtime and their first assembly. Once they were full time in school, I had a Draw and Talk session, where I asked them to draw me something about school and I recorded...
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What's creative about creative writing?
History & The Arts

What's creative about creative writing?

...educators and translators looks at what creativity means in the context of ‘creative writing’. We hear leading figures from the world of literature consider questions such as: Can creativity be taught? In what ways is translation creative? What part do culture and collaboration play in the creative process? Jump to: Andrew Cowan on creativity and creative writing Toby...
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Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...Open University course K102 Introducing health and social care....Digital innovation in social care and social work: Introduction - In this free course, Digital innovation in social care and social work, you will learn about how digital technology has made a difference, both to social care sector and people living in their own communities. There are many ways in which...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Algorithmic Design: Glossary - * algorithm An algorithm is a sequence of instructions on how to carry out a task. For example, a cooking recipe is an analogue algorithm. * algorithmic design Design based on a defined and logical set of rules. * codesnippet A small...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...resources for more than a subsistence recovery, and they are already looking for their share of what’s left of Syria’s economy. With his Russian- and Iranian-backed military, his secret police and prisons, and his propaganda outlets, Assad will still pose as a president in his own right. But he does over a country which has lost more than 500,000 people to killing, at...
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