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Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...resources, materials and methods are used and what set of activities goes under the heading of 'manufacturing'? This free course will introduce manufacturing as a system and will describe some of the many different ways of making products. We will illustrate how the required properties of the materials in a product influence the choice of manufacturing process used...How...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...resources is only one rationale for why professional practice and policy should be grounded in reliable evidence. Perhaps more important than that, our policy and practice should be ethical. Either rationale needs evidence to support proposed and existing practice. And so it becomes very important as to what ‘counts’ as good evidence. Literature reviews help summarise...
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...human visual system has demonstrated how our eyes and brain need to work together to make sense of the world and other senses also need to work together with our visual system in order to interpret our surroundings accurately...Making sense of ourselves: 3.1 What do visual illusions tell us about how we process information? - Our visual and perceptual systems work...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...human tendency to create categories where people who don’t fit in can be placed away from the mainstream. Social categories may lead to prejudice and discrimination, but may also lead to the physical separation of people to the margins of that society. Sibley (1995), in their seminal work, traces the physical marginalisation of people in what he calls the ‘geographies...
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...human functioning – we are driven by three core psychological needs: autonomy, competence and relatedness. Applying this to reading, we can see that to be motivated as readers pupils need a high degree of agency, volition and choice (autonomy), a sense of self-efficacy and a positive reader identity (competence), and that they need to feel part of a network of readers...
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses. This extract is from the course E314 Exploring contemporary issues in sport and exercise . If you are interested in this subject and want to study formally with us, you may wish to explore other courses we offer in Study at OU...Recovery strategies in sport and...
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...Humanities...Approaching poetry: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of the role analysis plays in informing appreciation and understanding of poetry identify and discuss the main analytical concepts used in analysing poetry...Approaching poetry: 1 Approaching poetry - What is the point of analysing poetry? One...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory’ (Weber, 1991 [1921], p. 78). While other elements are key to Weber’s definition, and we shall explore some of these below, territory is clearly central to it – the state claims to be dominant (it claims to say what goes) within a defined...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs