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Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...out if GICAST is having the intended impact on your learning. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others. YouTube channel A YouTube channel has been created with some supporting materials for this course, including a full demo of using the course, gaining a badge, and other cyber security news. You can find the channel...
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...out more about research methodology and ways of knowing. Click on these links to find out further information about the Masters in Education and Masters in Childhood and Youth at The Open University. Or you can email WELS-ECYS-Masters@open.ac.uk. Regardless of whether you study this course on its own or as part of a Masters qualification, on completion you will be...
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...out there in the Universe and where they are located. Imaging the Universe enables us to understand its structure and contents. Images provide a wider context within which astronomers can use tools like spectroscopy to investigate the detailed physics and chemistry of individual objects. In this course, you will explore how astronomers use images to measure the properties...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...out people’s current needs, this is also called ‘actual demand’. Anticipating – means spotting gaps emerging in the market and predicting what people might need in the future, this is also called ‘latent demand’. Marketing organisations often describe themselves as customer-led, but it can be just as important to be customer-leading. This entails seeing an...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...out many years ago as a childminder when I lived in Canada, and when I came in, over to England, nine years ago, I started volunteering in a playgroup, and it got me more interested in children and decided to do my NVQ 3. And since then I’ve moved on, I’m now doing my foundation degree at WarwickUniversity. The foundation degree has been hard work. But it has helped...
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...out in contemporary approaches to diagnosis. One contemporary approach treats the spectrum essentially as a continuum on which all autistic individuals have their own specific profile of strengths and challenges. Another approach maintains the notion of a spectrum, but allocates autistic profiles of strengths and difficulties into some newly defined sub-types. You will...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...out there that can be objectively known; for example, profit can be viewed as an objective measure of business performance. Alternatively the researcher may believe that concepts such as ‘culture’, ‘motivation’, ‘leadership’, ‘performance’ result from human categorisation of the world and that their ‘meaning’ can change depending on the circumstances....
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...out of your reading? This free course, Approaching prose fiction, is designed to develop the analytical skills you need for a more in-depth study of literary texts. You will learn about narrative events and perspectives, the setting of novels, types of characterisation and genre...Do you want to get more out of your reading? This free course, Approaching prose fiction, is...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs