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Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...skills necessary to survive and thrive. Relationships lie at the heart of all effective work with young people and are the foundation upon which you can build your work with them. In some people’s eyes, the development of relationships is a good end in itself, as it is in relationships that we express our humanity. Young people with few good quality relationships in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...skills, materials and technologies for people to transform ideas into products...They are independent local labs connected through a global network. FabLab Nepal opened in January 2021 as part of Impact Hub Kathmandu, and from the very beginning they made it clear that their priority was to develop a humanitarian agenda to engage members of marginalised groups. Providing...
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Article 5 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...skills of cooking, sewing and housekeeping. Alternatively, they could choose ‘commercial’ subjects such as typing and accounting, as these were the types of jobs most women could expect to obtain after leaving school. However, the main emphasis of girls’ education continued to be on preparing them for future lives as wives and mothers and jobs which typically...
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Article 10 mins
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...skills needed by those supporting learners. In the context of this development, this free course, Practice supervision and assessment in nursing, has been designed to support practitioners working with students in workplace settings across nursing provision. Core to these resources are the requirements of the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) – the nursing regulator –...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What is Systems Thinking in Practice Hub about?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Systems Thinking in Practice Hub about?

...study, from 1 hour to 75 hours! One of them, Mastering systems thinking in practice, is specifically designed as a primer for the OU postgraduate programme in Systems thinking in practice. Many of the videos and audios show key techniques being demonstrated, such as systems diagramming. Some are older case studies of complex, and some offer interviews with key systems...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning
Education & Development

Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning

...skills of thinking and learning. The speakers are Professors Rudolph Schaffer, Michael Cole, Alison Garton, Vasu Reddy and Dr Suzanne Zeedyk. The interviews are introduced and contextualised by Dr Dorothy Faulkner and Professor David Messer of The Open University. The material forms part of The Open University course ED841 Understanding children's development and...
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Audio 1 hr 56 mins
Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...studying on an international programme in a Finnish university, and he would now like to learn more Finnish and move on in his career, but he is struggling to get the opportunity to do so. His case is also typical because there are many African men in the Finnish cleaning industry who are over-educated for the job they are doing. Kifibin moved to Finland in 2010 to study...
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Article 5 mins
Kinematics of fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Kinematics of fluids

...study of this free OpenLearn course, Kinematics of fluids, should enhance your skills in communicating mathematical ideas clearly and succinctly, expressing problems in mathematical language and interpreting mathematical results in real-world terms. You should now be able to: derive the pathlines and the streamlines in Cartesian and polar form from a velocity field derive...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs