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Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...becomes seen as a function of the follower, the leader and situational variables (Wortman, quoted in Crossman and Crossman, 2011). Followership is a relational role in which followers have the ability to influence leaders and contribute to the improvement and attainment of group and organisational objectives (Carsten et al., quoted in Crossman and Crossman, 2011). More...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...become a regular feature of international meetings on development and/or the environment. The media's love of conflict, and the protestors' gift for creating compelling media images, underlined the sense that a very different way of looking at the world was being presented. The protestors are only the most visible expression of a line of argument that originated...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...OU study where remotely operable telescopes feature...PLEASE NOTE: After a hardware failure, COAST remains offline for now. All observing requests are being redirected to PIRATE. As Open University teaching and research commitments of PIRATE have to take priority, the observing time available for telescope.org requests is more limited and waiting times for images to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...become loose or unstuck. The relationships between various material properties and temperature do not all follow the same trends, and there are intriguing reasons for this that we will take this opportunity to examine. We shall also be looking at the practical implications of these different kinds of relationship by working through a real-world engineering problem. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...become adults?’ If not, it doesn’t matter but you cannot learn very much about youth justice without considering this question. It is going to be a focus for your learning in this session. This is because it’s a good way to start understanding many of the issues shaping youth justice practice and youth justice systems in the UK. What you think about the boundaries...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...become citizens in both political and legal terms. Against this background, the concept of acts of citizenship starts from the idea that citizenship is a dynamic process and that people can constitute themselves as citizens via claims to rights, regardless of their existing citizenship status. Instead of starting from the question of ‘Who is a citizen?’, we ask...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...become an expert in a particular subject. In the following sections, you will gain an insight into some of the main disciplines in the social sciences, focusing in particular on psychology, law and sociology. The reason you will focus on these three disciplines is that they are often studied alongside criminology, forming part of joint-honours degrees at many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...students. Why do you think people might feel this way about science? Comment Those who influence attitudes towards science and how scientific knowledge develops include researchers, government, industry and religious and lobby groups. Attitudes change – for example, over recent years there has been a growing interest about science related to medicine and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs