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Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...badged open course Working in voluntary organisations, which will be available in 2016. Activity 6 Why volunteer? Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes Watch the following video featuring the same volunteers you met in Activity 4. Write notes on why they volunteer. Lisa Harris I volunteer for Bravery Boxes because I saw the trauma that my friend went through with having...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...Open University qualification, BSc (Honours) Nursing (Children and Young People). Enjoy your course!...Promoting the effective management of children’s pain: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the value of creating knowledgeable and confident practitioners gain an insight of the need for health care professionals to be...
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 3: Creating an innovative assessment: Introduction - Developing an innovative assessment requires careful thought and visualisation of your ideas. This week you will use what you have learned from Weeks 1 and 2 to help you to begin this process. This week is designed to be quite practical, so you will...
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...course was produced by The Open University in association with the Police Service of Northern Ireland...This free course, Capacity and demand management, is part of the series focusing on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing within the community. This course focuses on the use of data to make decisions, using actions taken in managing...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...Open University in collaboration with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). It is one of a series of courses which together focus on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing within the community. Through a scenario-based approach, this particular course draws together the various strands of learning from previous courses and...
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B324 Marketing and society...Social marketing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe and explain the meaning and nature of social marketing analyse social marketing problems and suggest ways of solving these recognise the range of stakeholders involved in social...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...Openings (Y003) – a pre-university course of two modules, ‘Our living environment’ and ‘Thinking about measurement’, from the Breakthrough series. The course lasts for 14 weeks and involves 6–8 hours study per week. There are no tutorials but your tutor is available to provide feedback by phone. The course is presented four times a year. *Teach yourself basic...
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T848 Managing technological innovation...Technology, innovation and management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the issues around defining ‘technology’, ‘innovation’ and ‘innovation management’ recognise the diversity of types of innovation,...