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Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...Open University digital badge. The badge is a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject. What you learn by completing the course will really help if you wish to enrol on a formal qualification. Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from your OpenLearn Profile. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn Statement of...
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Free course 48 hrs
Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Living History: Life as a Railway Worker During the 2020–21 COVID-19 Global Pandemic

...Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Background 2020 and 2021 have been described as years like no other; “unprecedented times” was a phrase often used as a way of capturing the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But for railway workers working life carried on as normal in so far as they all booked on for duty, facing the public on a daily basis and...
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Article 10 mins
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...Open University course U116 Environment: journeys through a changing world...Climate change and renewable energy: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the basic principles of the atmospheric greenhouse effect and the term ‘Net Zero’ understand the human influences causing the anthropogenic or enhanced greenhouse effect...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...Inc. 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...S. and Spawforth, A, “The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilisation” © 1998, Oxford Univeresity Press 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 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...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...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...resources, then generally the first thing to be sacrificed was a focus on purpose and ethics. As one leader in a central government department said: “When you work really, really hard and things get stressed, you focus on the task rather than on the individual.” Another constraint faced by organisations is the difficulty of creating and embedding a single, clear,...
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