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Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...students who have studied and used systems thinking: Frances Chapman: Systems thinking is important for me because it helps extend my apparently natural way of thinking, providing tools for handling the complexity more adequately and helping deepen understanding; particularly regarding interactions – where once I would have known they were there but remained unsure of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...OU student, and now to an OU member of staff supporting the Students in Secure Environments team. Read more about Stephen’s story in the following article: From prisoner to OU student and staff member...Session 8: A new era for prison education?: Where next? - If you’ve enjoyed this course you can find more free resources and courses on OpenLearn. ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...become confident, active participants in a new setting...In this free course, Listening to young children: supporting transition, you will explore ways of listening to children in order to support their experiences of changes or transitions. Such transitions can involve many dimensions, including familiarisation with new cultural practices, the development of new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...become more variable, and world markets less predictable. Therefore food security within the UK is more important than ever. It is vital we value our agricultural land and the people who produce our food. To attain food security, we need to match sustainable systems to the crops best suited to them and to develop people’s awareness of production systems with the aim of...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...becomes stable under its own weight. You will also realise that some heavy weights, both stones and timber, had to be shifted – which called for ropes, pulleys, levers …. And day by day the project had to be supervised, or kept on track, by an engineer who understood both what to do and how to do it. Evidently this engineer did it rather well: the result is still...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...become predominant, called Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes, which form about 90% of the gut microbiota (Arumugam, 2011). Figure 4 shows the distribution of the most common bacterial groups found in microbiomes around the body. You may notice that the different parts of the GI tract contain different proportions of the bacteria. [Described image] Figure 4 Distribution of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...become blurred by the development of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs). Moreover, all polymers, irrespective of their nature, can be reinforced by a very wide range of fillers to produce composite materials. [Figure 3] Figure 3 Classification of polymers by property Another way of classifying polymers is in terms of their form or function, varying from additives to other...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...student, lives with her family in a remote area where the Post Office and village store are threatened with closure. She needs to engage in a team enterprise activity as part of her Welsh Baccalaureate qualification and has been inspired by enterprise events and lectures attended at college. With the support of staff at the Post Office, she wants to lead local residents...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs