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Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...2001) The New Encyclopedia of Mammals, Oxford University Press; Figure 4 adapted from: Courtesy of Audrey Brown. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...course, you should be able to: open up and ‘map’ geography and the ways the subject is understood (and sometimes misunderstood) examine ways in which the subject is under pressure – especially with regard to the ‘chasm’ that is said to exist between university and school geography establish reasons why the subject is important in relation to topical debates...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 2: Exploring corpus linguistics in EAP: Introduction - [Described image] You’ve probably seen word clouds like the one above before. They’re often used in newspapers and in social media as illustrations. This one was generated using a free word cloud generator (Generate Word Cloud) by inputting some of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...Open University Course Team Chair As far as we’re concerned, writing in your own words is your opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of the concepts involved. It used to be said that lectures were a process by which the notes of the professor became the notes of the student without ever passing through the mind of either. Therefore we use in your own words as a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Aquatic mammals: References - Adams, D. (1979) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, London, Picador (this edition 2002). Bonner, W. N. (1980) Whales, Poole, Blandford Press Ltd. Darwin, C. (1859) On the Origin of Species, Oxford World's Classics Edition, Oxford University Press (this edition 2008). Davis, R. W. et...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B867 Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring...Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the generic components of the traditional training lifecycle of the training needs analysis, or TNA (sometimes called a training...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Working in the voluntary sector Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...badged open course, Introducing the voluntary sector, you will be familiar with a classification of voluntary organisations by Charles Handy (1988). He distinguished between mutual support groups, service delivery agents and campaigning bodies: Mutual support groups – ‘those organisations […] created in order to put people with a particular problem or enthusiasm in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs