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What is the national learning hub for volunteers?
Education & Development

What is the national learning hub for volunteers?

...skills and knowledge on volunteering and open the door to new opportunities? Check out a number of free courses from OpenLearn, on subjects such as: roles and responsibilities communication equality, diversity and inclusion safeguarding mental health dementia learning disability health and safety fluid and nutrition basic life support key skills Get started and discover...
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Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...skills...Introduction and guidance: What is a badged course? - While studying Exploring career mentoring and coaching you have the option to work towards gaining a digital badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father
Society, Politics & Law

Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father

...study on fathering identities, suggested it certainly wasn’t from their own dads. The men I spoke to were fairly ambivalent about the way they had been ‘fathered’: most of them admired their dads, but they didn’t see themselves following their example. This was summed up in a telling comment by Paul, one of my interviewees, who said of his dad: ‘I don’t think...
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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...skills and aptitudes. However, one explanation that has gained particular currency - to the extent of becoming a kind of unchallenged ‘common sense’ - is the supposed absence of positive male role models from the lives of today’s young men, especially those perceived to be most vulnerable. This was certainly an argument heard repeatedly from politicians and others...
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Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...skills. Human participants also take part in the study – attempting the same task and using the same equipment. Now the session is over, Matsuzawa’s students, Lyla and Akiho, decide to have a go themselves. Lyla I can’t memorise the order and position of the numerals. It’s very difficult. Akiho If I pass 5 then it’s getting difficult I think – 3, 4. 5 – I...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...skills and independence. This course has been developed for secondary school geography teachers at the beginning of their careers. It takes a learner-centred approach and starts by looking at how assessment can be integrated into planning to support student progression. We will discuss different classroom approaches, including questioning and feedback. Also explored will...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...skills and attributes that teaching assistants use to provide effective support and contribute to productive teamwork. This OpenLearn course introduces diverse roles and distinctive contributions of teaching assistants...Teaching assistants are an important resource in education. This free course, Teaching assistants: support in action, looks at how the role has developed...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the genesis and continuing development of the resource-based view of organisations understand the distinction between organisational resources, competences and capabilities and their significance for technological innovation understand the development, use and management of a range of capabilities for technological...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs