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Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...Language Sabbaticals Scheme'. This Sabbatical Scheme offers a five week entry level Welsh course to all primary practitioners working in English medium schools to help them develop vocabulary and language skills relevant to primary practice. The Welsh Government's Action Plan to promote the role and development of support staff in schools in Wales acknowledged that...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...free course, Waste management and environmentalism in China, is an introduction to waste generation and waste management processes currently being practiced in China. This course explores how the Chinese can deal with increasing volumes of waste, drawing parallels with the UK experience of waste management. It also discusses the conceptual tools that can be used to make...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...free course, Succeed with maths: part 2, is a sequel to Part 1, in which you will continue to develop your mathematical knowledge and skills using everyday examples. The course takes a look at measurement of length, mass and volume, negative numbers and how to use these, scientific notation (based upon powers of 10), shapes and how to calculate their properties before...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...language, the free course Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin will soon be available on OpenLearn. If you are interested in studying Latin or Roman culture more formally, you might be interested in the following Open University courses: A276 Classical Latin: the language of Ancient Rome, A219 Exploring the classical world and A340 The Roman Empire...Introducing ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...languages in which these works were composed...The free course, Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin, gives a taste of what it is like to learn two ancient languages. It is for those who have encountered the classical world through translations of Greek and Latin texts and wish to know more about the languages in which these works were composed....Discovering ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...language skills and communicate more easily and effectively in Spanish? This free course, Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around, concentrates on Spanish as a tool for communication, but it also provides some insights into Hispanic societies and cultures through authentic printed and audio materials. This OpenLearn course focuses on public spaces and how to get by in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...free course explores how to use data to inform a change you would like to make within your business or organisational context. It looks at the type of evidence you can gather to inform your proposed change, and how to evaluate data with a view to using it as part of this transformation. Specifically, you will learn about internal and external sources of secondary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...free course, Reading evidence, you will be focusing on the variety of methods for presenting and organising qualitative and quantitative evidence in the form of numbers and text. You will learn how to understand the ways in which evidence is presented and to read it actively and with purpose...What is active reading? It is reading with the aim of understanding and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs