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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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Sut beth yw dychwelyd i addysg wrth weithio?
Education & Development

Sut beth yw dychwelyd i addysg wrth weithio?

...o hyd i’r cydbwysedd cywir rhwng gwaith, bywyd a’i hastudiaethau, yn ogystal â’r gefnogaeth y mae wedi’i chael ar hyd y ffordd. [Ffion shares her experience of studying while working] [Logo Prifysgol Bangor] Darparwyd yr adnodd hwn gan Brifysgol Bangor ac mae'n rhan o'r hwb Barod ar gyfer Prifysgol. Gallwch ddod o hyd i fwy o adnoddau fel hyn ar hafan yr hwb....
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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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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
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...working within certain social, safety and ethical boundaries. Particularly given the increasing trend in the Western world towards litigation, it is in our own best interest to uphold this responsibility. In considering the responsibilities of engineers, this section also provides an opportunity for putting the whole course in context...Engineering: The nature of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Assessment in secondary music
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary music

...work, including making decisions about what is assessed and how it is assessed. Most of all, however, the course will have at its heart considerations of how music assessment can be musical. The course identifies and explores some of the key issues and debates around assessment and music in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates you will...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...social care, all combined with increasingly apparent levels of inequality. Moreover such a disproportion has been felt more keenly in regions outside the SE of England. Playing the blame game When the Conservative Party took power in 2010 (helped by successfully putting the blame entirely on the Party in power, Labour, during what was in reality an international...
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Martin Holt On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Martin Holt On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...work on systems education courses in 1991 having first come across the concepts as part of his postgraduate OU studies in Manufacturing. Martin describes his approach to STIP as: “A Curious person. I try to follow the adage of learning something new every day though these days it’s more about trying to remember something I’ve forgotten. What approaches and sectors...
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