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What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...course, What is poetry?, is designed to illustrate the techniques behind both the traditional forms of poetry and free verse. You will learn how you can use your own experiences to develop ideas and how to harness your imagination...Have you always wanted to try to write poetry but never quite managed to start? This free course, What is poetry?, is designed to illustrate...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social care in the community
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care in the community

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K101 An introduction to health and social care...Social care in the community: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the variety of caring activity within the UK for older people in the home describe care situations for older people in the home objectively identify...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...Open University course D810 Critically exploring psychology 1 and D811 Critically Exploring Psychology 2...This free course introduces you to critical thinking as a tool for psychology. As you work your way through the course you will learn what critical thinking is, and why it is important to use in the study of psychology. In particular, it will help you to think about...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...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. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is ......
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course TM356 Interaction Design...An introduction to interaction design: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what interaction design is, the importance of user-centred design and methods of user information gathering understand how the sensory, cognitive and physical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...course has been developed from the Open University course S826 Introduction to mental health science (Stage 1 in the Masters in Mental Health Science), and is suitable preparatory reading if you are considering moving on to postgraduate study in this area. A number of related free courses are also available on OpenLearn. They are recommended to complement your studies....
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E808 Children and young people’s worlds...Children and young people: food and food marketing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify and analyse the importance of food in various aspects of children’s and young people’s lives understand the impact of food marketing...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...course is adapted from a former Open University course called 'Working and learning in sport and fitness (E113).' Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs