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Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. 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...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...open and interested in what this person is trying to communicate. I make eye contact with them. Now, I don’t stare them down because, let’s be honest, staring somebody down might be a little intimidating coming from someone who’s five feet tall. So I occasionally make eye contact. I uncross my hands, unclench my fists, let them know that I’m here to listen to...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...course provides a taster for studying other Italian short courses at The Open University’s Open Centre for Languages and Cultures. Some activities in this course use an audio-recording tool. This may not work correctly in the Safari browser on Apple Mac computers. Please try another browser such as Google Chrome to run this...Beginners’ Italian: food and...
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...2.0 Licence. All other materials included in this course are derived from content originated at the Open University. 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...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...Open University course B208 Developing leadership. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course survey. Once you complete the course we would also value your feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our optional...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...opener for me. I used to sit with my parents, I was in front of the fire, like a dog, watching the world through this little box in the corner of the living room in the early seventies, just thinking, ‘That’s absolutely amazing.’ The fascination of nature, the beauty of nature, the fascination of animals and ecologies and all of that and morphologies was just...
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...Open University course DD801 Principles of social and psychological inquiry. The topics and the general approach of this short course will give you a taster of this Open University course...The social nature of being human: Learning outcomes - By the end of this course, you should be able to: understand popular representations of crowds understand the relationship between...
Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law
Science, Maths & Technology

Electromagnetism: testing Coulomb’s law

...Open University course SM381 Electromagnetism...This free course explores Coulomb’s law, the physical law that governs the force between electric charges, and shows how it can be verified experimentally. As a prerequisite you will need some mathematical knowledge of vectors. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SM381...