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A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 2: Growing with your mentee – mentoring as a continuum: Introduction - In Week 1 you were introduced to the principles of effective mentoring. This week focuses on how mentoring may develop and change as both you and your mentee gain experience and confidence. In the first part, the main factors in this...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K219 Critical issues in health and wellbeing...Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: outline to what extent a person’s ‘lifestyle’ impacts upon their health and wellbeing describe how psychosocial (i.e. social, economic,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...Open University course DD305 Personal Lives and Social Policy. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission: Figure 1 © The Flint Journal. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. Photo by Steve Jessmore; Figure 3 © Underwood & Underwood/Corbis; Figure 4 Sunley, P. et al. (2001) ‘Mapping the New Deal: local disparities in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...opened this course, what might it involve? As a teacher, you could get a class to think critically about this in more detail. The document Defining global corporate citizenship gives two definitions to begin with. Click ‘view document’ below to download Defining global corporate citizenship View document...Teaching citizenship: work and the economy: 3 ‘Acts’ and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD209 Running the economy...Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what economists mean by ‘models’ and how they can be used to inform economic policy define the concept of equilibrium and explain how it can occur at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...Open University course E232 Exploring childhood and youth. It has been designed by Dr Christothea Herodotou, a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) for the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University. Christothea has studied children and mobile technologies in several projects funded by the British Academy and the British Educational Research Association,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...Open University course DD210 Living psychology: from the everyday to the extraordinary. A note on ‘human’ and ‘animal’ differentiation in this course While humans are, of course, animals, for the purposes of this course the term ‘animal’ will be used to refer to non-human species, in order to allow a clear distinction between human and non-human mental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...course was produced collaboratively by The Open University and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize....Introduction and guidance: Introduction - Nuclear weapons have been used in war twice, when the Americans dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 at the end of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs