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Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...Communications technologies have underpinned these networks. You have already seen evidence (and there is more to come) that all networks have the inherent potential to be put to a vast range of uses. Even the internet, with its origins in ambitions for robust military research and development communications networks, can do as much to advance debate and action on...
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...community/local, and internal – on the leadership of the school. NARRATOR In South Africa, cultural values have undergone some dramatic changes in recent decades. And as a result, styles of school leadership have changed too. [STUDENTS RECITING] JAMIEL ALEXANDER Ooh, fast asleep after that greeting, eh? NARRATOR Jamiel Alexander became principal of Chapel Street Primary...
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...community. You will encounter music from different times, places and genres while being introduced a range of scholarly perspectives on music...Introducing music research provides you with insights into the wide variety of possibilities for studying music at postgraduate level. In this free course you will explore diverse musical topics through four themes: inclusions and...
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...communicate the interactions that humans have with nature, the positive and the negative. There is so much going on there, it’s so complicated, but the key thing is that it’s so interconnected, I don’t think you can look at wildlife without looking at the human interaction with that because it sounds… it’s ridiculous to say like 90-odd… pretty much everything...
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...Oral communication. Presentation skills. Language proficiency. Sharing audio/video material. Presenting. Digital storytelling. Audio/video discussion and feedback. Seminar replicators (e.g. VoiceThread). Video sharing (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo). Podcasting. Presentation sharing (e.g. SlideShare). Online/distance learning platforms (e.g. Blackboard Collaborate, Adobe Connect)....
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Women’s Herring Strike in Great Yarmouth in the 1930s and 1940s

...community throughout Scotland and beyond Scotland to other areas in the United Kingdom (Historic Environment Scotland, 2023). Following the herring shoals Steam fishing boats were the main vessels used in the Scottish Herring Fleet in from the 1880s. In Scotland, the fishing harbours at Anstruther and Cellardyke on the East Fife coast were the key locations for the...
Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...communities...My name is Remi Martin. I am a Black British woman from South London and work in a Bereavement Team in my local hospice. I started my studies with The Open University in 2019. I am now an OU Alumni but have been continuing engaging in research-based projects with the OU after writing a participatory research proposal on bereavement for my final assessment in...
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...communication more effective...Grammar matters because, combined with vocabulary choice, it is our main way of making meaning. This free course introduces you to one approach used to understand how meanings relate systematically to different aspects of grammar and shows how this deeper understanding can be applied to make everyday communication more effective....Grammar...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs