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Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...free course helps practitioners to understand these changes and explore how they can support babies and toddlers in early childhood settings. This course draws on research and expertise from early childhood academics at The Open University and professionals at Early Years Wales...The first two years of a child’s life are a time of incredible change and development. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...free course, Passports: identity and airports, offers a sociological analysis of the modern airport. Using a lively mixture of videos, interactive exercises and readings, the course explores how the social world of the airport is made and maintained. In particular, it investigates how the processes that constitute this world - queuing, check in, security clearance, moving...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...free course, Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice, explores some of the tensions and debates linked to the aim of achieving literacy for all, using specific examples. It focuses on current significant debates related to the teaching of the technical aspects of literacy to a ‘sufficient standard’ and debates related to becoming a ‘literate person’. In...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...free course, Using a scientific calculator, will help you to understand how to use the different facilities and functions and discover what a powerful tool this calculator can be!...Do you have a Casio fx-83 ES scientific calculator (or a compatible model) and want to learn how to use it? This free course, Using a scientific calculator, will help you to understand how to...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...free course will focus on the promotion of effective management of children’s pain, through the use of a pain management framework. The information presented will enable you to gain knowledge and insight into evidence-based practice, in relation to delivering effective pain management for children...This short course focuses on promoting the effective management of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...free course, An introduction to web applications architecture, provides an overview of the design and implementation of computer software that runs on web servers, instead of those running solely on desktop computers, laptops or mobile devices...This free course, An introduction to web applications architecture, provides an overview of the design and implementation of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...free course you will study the ideas of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986). In doing so you will also briefly study the philosophy of Beauvoir’s lifelong partner, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The type of philosophy that links them is called ‘existentialism’. Beauvoir and Sartre are the foremost philosophers of French existentialism. You will read extracts...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...free course, How to manage change in health and social care, you will explore the role of managers in the change process and the skills required for managing and leading change in health and social care work...Change is everywhere in health and social care work and can evoke a variety of emotions, from excitement and eager anticipation, to fear and outright hostility. In...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs