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Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational wellbeing of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...course, Understanding society: families, you will explore how different families have different ideas about how work in the home should be divided. You will also investigate the diversity of families. We will see how any discussion of the division of labour has to recognise that families differ in terms of shape and size...In this free course, Understanding society:...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L116 Spanish Studies 1: language and culture of the Spanish-speaking world...Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: develop strategies for understanding video resources in Spanish understand Spanish spoken at natural speed...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K355 Critical thinking in social work practice....Exploring critical social work practice: Introduction - This free course introduces what is meant by critical social work practice, and its activities will help you to develop the kinds of skills you need as a social work student, or as a qualified social worker....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...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 informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...course, in that you would probably want to be able to open up conversation with the community member to try to find out what’s behind their reaction. And you’d want to do this quickly, so that you might resolve it quickly too. How would you ‘diagnose’ the behaviour of the community member towards you? What behaviours do you think they are displaying towards you?...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...course explores this phenomenon, drawing on an Open University study on how staff (tutors) can support students with a mental health condition, and considers both what staff and institutions can do to improve student mental wellbeing...There is an increasing prevalence of university students who need mental health support and university staff benefit from training on this...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...Open University Press. More like this … If you’ve enjoyed this OpenLearn free course, you might also like to study the courses below, which were also adapted from D867 Critical criminological perspectives: An introduction to critical criminology Crimes of the powerful Criminology beyond crime...Race, ethnicity and crime: Acknowledgements - Course image Chris Yarzab in...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr