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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...account about ‘the environment’ that is raised by the images in Figure 1. They are a particular view of a particular environment from a particular perspective: mostly a western and northern hemisphere perspective. Do they convey your understanding of what is an environment? If you live in a desert landscape or in a highly polluted, highly urbanised city, you may not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...accounts of current solutions. The aims of this unit are to describe some factors that affect the security of networks and data communications, and their implications for users; and to introduce some basic types of security service and their components, and indicate how these are applied in networks. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 3 study in Computing &...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...account so far has explained the mechanisms that stop sounds becoming ‘jumbled’ and reminds us that, subjectively, we listen to just one of the disentangled sounds. It seems obvious that they would need disentangling to become intelligible, but why do we then attend to only one? That question leads us into the early history of attention research. One of the first...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...account of the views of all concerned, especially people experiencing mental distress. It explores ideas and practice in mental health, and will appeal to a wide range of people...Take a new and different look at mental health. This free course, Challenging ideas in mental health, invites you to think differently about life's dilemmas by taking account of the views of all...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...account, as the company behind it may be run in a way that you agree or disagree with. In this sense you ‘do politics’, and are political citizens, in a multitude of ways every day, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly. Recently, there has been a move towards an ‘active’ understanding of citizenship, focusing on the ‘acts’ and ability of individual...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...account for this apparent decline?...Young people’s wellbeing: 1.2 Researching media stories - The apparent decline of young people’s wellbeing can be explained because of growing pressures to perform at school and to get a good job in what is an increasingly competitive job market. In addition to such pressures, the longer term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...accountability – explaining the decisions and actions of the governing body to anyone who has a legitimate interest There are many aspects to the role of governor, and all governors bring a wide range of existing skills, experience and knowledge to their role. The work of your governing body draws upon that wide range of skills and experiences. Schools and the education...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...account of the characteristics of each of the learning 'types' identified by Honey and Mumford. Table 1 Learning styles: strengths and weaknesses LEARNING STYLE STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES Activist Flexible and open-minded. Happy to have a go. Happy to be exposed to new situations. Optimistic about anything new and therefore unlikely to resist change. Tendency to take the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs