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More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...children that women in each country might have, and information about mortality rates either among children or across all age ranges. You might consider emigration, immigration and population growth estimates. You may have thought of other things as well; these are only a guide. Decide on a clear title. In this case, it could be either ‘Population growth in the EU’ or...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...research and knowledge exchange between The Open University (Open University in Ireland, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Open University Library) and participants in the Time to Think archive. This includes Loyalist and Republican ex-prisoners who studied with The Open University in British and Irish prisons during the years of conflict (1972–2000), Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...research shows that wellbeing can mean different things to different people. For example, when we asked Open University students to sum up what wellbeing meant to them, some used words such as ‘contentment’, ‘calmness’ and ‘happiness’ that indicated they thought wellbeing was focused on aspects of mental health. However, other students provided words that...
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Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...centre moderno modern ciudad (la) city pequeño small comercial commercial precioso beautiful...Beginners' Spanish: Getting around: Introducción - In this session you are going to learn how to ask about different places of interest in Spain, Chile and Uruguay: what they are, where they are and what they look like. Key learning points Asking and answering where a monument...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...centres: These are often a good way of building a picture of employees’ development needs across a range of functions and activities. If used for TNA purposes, they need to be aligned with the overall performance management strategy. Observations: You might decide to collect data on what skills are deployed in a more naturalistic setting than that offered by interviews...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...children with learning disabilities (The Open University, 2022). This highly offensive language was used both about and to learners, and promoted an unfounded belief that children and young people who experienced mental illness, or learning difficulties, were less intelligent than others. Ethnic minority pupils were disproportionately classified as ESN, and this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...research in this field often looks at the structures and the physical processes going on within the brain. So this approach is often referred to as being based on a ‘bio-medical’ model of mental health...Making sense of mental health problems: 2.1 Diagnostic handbooks - Figure 3 Maggie from the interactive ‘A Support Net’ which is associated with this OpenLearn...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing
Education & Development

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...Research also shows that when Turnitin is used as a developmental tool, your perceptions shift: you can use it as a learning tool rather than simply a plagiarism detector (Oldham, 2025). This approach supports the broader benefits of formative assessment — enhancing understanding, scaffolding performance, and empowering you to self-regulate learning (Marks, 2025). By...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs