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Gain a badge and further your career
Money & Business

Gain a badge and further your career

...as evidence of your achievement – and it's all for free. If you're more interested in shorter pieces of learning to help improve your career, we offer an array of free courses on OpenLearn. See our 'For work' courses With all of these courses, they can be studied at any time and at a pace to suit you. You can also earn a free statement of participation on completion....
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All the Fun of the Fair
Science, Maths & Technology

All the Fun of the Fair

...work. This material makes up part of The Open University course MST209 Mathematical methods and models... All the Fun of the Fair A short introduction to this album. Circular Motion and the Chairoplane Roundabout The Nottingham Goose fair provides the backdrop to numerous examples of circular motion. A ride showing uniform motion in the horizontal plane. The Millennium...
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Audio 14 mins
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...social advancement and entertainment, on what was known as the Grand Tour. A central objective was to gain exposure to the cultures of classical antiquity, particularly in Italy. In this free course, you’ll explore some of the different kinds of cultural encounters that fed into the Grand Tour, and will explore the role that they play in our study of Art History,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...worked through in order, but they do usually have a topic guide. This is a list of areas that you want to find out about that helps you structure the interview. To begin creating a topic guide, make a list of the areas you’d like to cover. When your list is complete, think about what order would mimic a natural conversation and create the best flow. You may find it...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...social issues...Census stories: Bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes: 1 What can the census tell us about religion? - Before you start thinking through the course's key questions in more depth, watch this short film explaining how the census data can help us understand religious identity in Milton Keynes: NARRATOR Are we getting less religious? Every ten years in...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...social information’ held by others in the colony. These bees out-compete the directions given by other bees dancing less vigorously. Some more recent studies of bee behaviour suggest that ‘private information’ held by individual bees (e.g. the memory of where they found nectar on a previous foraging trip) is also at play. Guidance given by different team members is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...work, power and efficiency, then briefly investigates the different types of energy available, their sources and renewability. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Science...Energy resources: An introduction to energy resources: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the difference between energy and power,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...work in sport. This will create a virtuous circle, where a more diverse workforce contributes to a more sustainable pipeline of women leaders to draw from in the future. All of which can help drive much needed change for women and girls in sport. Diversity at board level, in leadership and among the coaching pool is important in growing women’s participation in sport...
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