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Start your career with OpenLearn
Education & Development

Start your career with OpenLearn

...Work' area on OpenLearn to help you enhance your work skills. Succeed in the workplace Whatever career path you choose to take, there are skills that will be relevant to them all – team work, communication, leadership… and you’ll find them all in our collection of ‘soft skills’ courses, as approved by Google. You can also check out our full collection of badged...
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Activity 10 mins
My career goal: Environment
Nature & Environment

My career goal: Environment

...work, or more industrial work like food farming and sustainable energy? Find out how you can gather skills and carry out work that will have a real impact on our relationship with the environment...This video explores the conflicts of interest between local people, visitors, quarrying and farming in the Peak District National Park. Park Rangers often try to resolve...
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Article 20 mins
Make it Digital
Digital & Computing

Make it Digital

...work already taking place across the UK through initiatives with partners. The Open University has co-produced three programmes in the season and the first two will be aired shortly. To celebrate the season, we have pulled together content from OpenLearn to get you delving into the Digital World! Order your FREE information pack - 'Digital Technology Past and Present'...
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Activity 5 mins
Reducing your ecological footprint
Nature & Environment

Reducing your ecological footprint

...work at the Eden Project and Mount Pleasant Eco Park in Cornwall. This material forms part of The Open University course U116, Environment: journeys through a changing world... Reducing your ecological footprint A short introduction to this album Eco-Renovations Reducing your carbon footprint at home. A couple from Oxford talk about the work they've done to their home in...
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Audio 24 mins
The Arts Past and Present: Diva
History & The Arts

The Arts Past and Present: Diva

...work to do. This album gives us an insight into the immense effort it requires to become a musical performer. As well as singing, acting, language, and stage skills all need to be honed. Catherine tackles the tragic aria of the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and is praised by her tutors. In the audio track Elaine Moohan from the Music Department at The Open...
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Audio 23 mins
Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...working in the civil service in 1950s British Guiana, to settle in Manchester? And who could have predicted the impact she would have as she worked with the African Caribbean communities there?...Early life and career Betty Luckham (then Thompson) was born in 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (since February 1966, the independent Republic of Guyana). The Thompsons were a...
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Video 10 mins
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...working with others and decision-making, in the context of policing within a community. We advise strongly that you do not start this course until you have completed the other 9 courses. This last course is to be used to bring all of these ideas together and partly text your knowledge by making you apply those skills in a practical way to a given situation. You take the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...workings of the UK political institutions and the role they have in making change, as well as other ways of making change. Identify and be able to apply in real-life settings some of the key skills and knowledge needed to make change...Introduction to making political and social change: 1 Becoming a changemaker - We live at a time of multiple challenges – environmental,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs