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A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...Heritage. This is a very broad definition of the creative arts covering several areas that you might not immediately think of as ‘arts’. In order to simplify the perspective, this course is designed to be most relevant to those working in the following areas: Visual arts: e.g. art, film, photography, crafts, design etc. Performing arts: e.g. music, dance, theatre...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...world. However, making that change is not straightforward. This free course will guide you through the process of researching and making a change in your work context. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B875 MBA project: leaders of change...Using data to aid organisational change: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...world where many people are living much longer than previous generations. This is often seen as a problem. But is it? This free course, Introducing ageing, will help you to think about this issue by introducing you to some key ideas in studying later life...Everyone is ageing, whatever their current age, and we live in a world where many people are living much longer than...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...world out there. And you might think that you just see competition in the savannas of Africa. But in fact, the microbes fight each other as well. And in fact, like martial arts, they have ways of fighting other microbes with particular moves. And one move they have is to produce antibiotics. These are compounds that allow them to kill other microbes and take all the food...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...world around us. This has helped shift thinking from a deficit model to a strength-based one and has been reflected in informal approaches by coaches in sport (Hoare et al., 2023; Kimber et al., 2023). As a result, elements of neurodiversity which in the past were viewed as negative and not ‘normal’, can now be viewed as something to be championed and utilised. For...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...world. Mammals are essentially a terrestrial group of animals, but three major groups have independently adopted an aquatic way of life. In moving to the water, aquatic mammals have had to survive, feed and reproduce using a set of biological characteristics that evolved in association with life on land. This course will explore how these characteristics have provided...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...world. Several concepts that you may already be familiar with, including atoms and energy, will be explored. You will also look at the various types of particle reactions, and the fundamental interactions that govern their behaviour. Subatomic particles are the building blocks of the Universe and an understanding of the reactions between these particles is crucial in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...world. The following activity will demonstrate this point. Activity 7 Listen while you read the following dialogues. The first takes place in Spain and the second in Chile. Pay attention to the different phrases they use to answer the phone in each country. Then, using the transcript replicated underneath, focus on the different phrases used to answer the phone, to ask to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs