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Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...adapt to or even ignore innovations in relation to environmental management. As noted above, there are many millions of organisations in existence. Many are themselves highly innovative, and many adopt successful innovations developed from others but are themselves perhaps not innovative. It is also true that many organisations engaged in innovation have no direct...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...et d’Arts Plate 2 adapted from Poinsett, C. (1983) ‘Les Ruines de Dougga’, Tunis, Ministers des Affaires Culturelles, Institute National d’Archeolgie et d’Arts Plate 4 Photo © Musée National du Bardo, Tunis Plate 5(a) Johns, C. (1971) ‘Arretine and Samian Pottery’, London, British Museum Press, © British Museum Plate 5(b) Hayes, J.J.V. (1997) ‘Handbook...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...et al., 2020). It is also the case that beginner teachers may be called by various terms, including: student-teacher; trainee teacher; early career teacher or beginning teacher (Hobson and Malderez, 2013). To aid in understanding how coaching differs from mentoring, this course will draw on the research of Lofthouse et al. (2010) on developing coaching among teachers....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...adapted extract from the Open University course E304 Exploring English Grammar. Brief definitions of words in bold can be found in the Glossary at the end of this course...Grammar matters: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand that grammar can be seen as a flexible and useful tool for meaning making understand how grammar and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...et al., 2014). The EU Kids Online Network project, called Zero to Eight, illustrates just how pervasive technology is becoming for younger children. The project report identified a significant increase over the previous five years of children under nine years old using the internet (Holloway et al., 2013). In particular it noted a growing trend for very young children...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...adapt to their changing environment so that they can survive and reproduce. NASA’s definition of life states that it is a chemical system: life needs elements and molecules to form its structure and provide energy for grow and proliferation, to become self-sustaining within an environment (i.e. not dependent on others) to be supportive to its needs. Activity 2 Timing:...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...adapted from the Open University course A234 Understanding Music. It is first in a planned sequence of courses that will each introduce different aspects of music theory...In this free course, you will learn how to identify musical form through close engagement with recorded music, and studying examples of folk, popular, and classical music from several world traditions....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...adapted extract from Managing complexity: a systems approach (T306) which is no longer taught by The Open University. If you want to study formally with us, you may wish to explore other courses we offer in this subject area...Managing complexity: a systems approach – introduction: Learning outcomes - At the end of this free course you should be able to: use reflection...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs