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Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...University end-of-course survey. We’re really interested in hearing from you about how you found the course, whether it has been helpful to you and what we could improve. Your feedback is anonymous but will have massive value to us in improving what we deliver...Good communication: References - East Sussex Total Communication (2009) Total Communication Resource Pack...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...University in collaboration with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). It is one of a series of courses which together focus on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing within the community. Through a scenario-based approach, this particular course draws together the various strands of learning from previous courses and invites you...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...University's Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL). The CVSL was established thanks to the generous support of Mr Anthony Nutt BA. Please take our survey about this course to give us feedback, inform future work, and have the (optional) opportunity to get more involved if you are interested. You do not need to have finished studying this course in order to take...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...University has been looking specifically at how people’s actions create the context of the space in which they communicate. Of equal importance to the influence of the algorithm is what people do with the site, and how they themselves fashion their experience of it. An overwhelming attitude from people surveyed in the research was that Facebook is not ideally suited to...
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Article 10 mins
Studying Darwin
Nature & Environment

Studying Darwin

...Open University. Course image: Nishanth Joisin Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...guide your effective donor development. The pyramid represents a ‘bottom-up’ approach to donor development. It rests on your ability to attract and renew a broad base of potential interest and support. What might the process look like, however, to someone who is largely interested not in the numbers of different types of donors and supporters but in the overall size...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...University Figure 2 The Sahara desert near Erfoud, Morocco [Figure 3] Science Photo Library Figure 3 A dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) [Figure 4] David Robinson, The Open University Figure 4 Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas) [Figure 5] David Robinson, The Open University Figure 5 Oryx In fact the picture is much more complex; the environment of each desert is unique,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...University course T193 Engineering: frameworks, analysis, production...Assessing risk in engineering, work and life: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: understand what is meant by risk carry out a basic risk assessment understand how accidents can be caused use probability to assess risk and minimise the occurrence of undesirable...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs