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Emotional intelligence for translators
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Emotional intelligence for translators

...work, provide a means to evaluate your EI, and enable the development of effective emotion management and coping skills. This course is £53.59 and open for enrolment at any time. Enrol here. Emotion management courses Emotional intelligence for translators is in a collection of courses developed as part of a Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) project in response to...
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Environmental Science in the Field
Science, Maths & Technology

Environmental Science in the Field

...work A lecturer explains what is involved in environmental field work; aims, objectives and the assessment of a field study. Conducting a field study Carrying out a field study in a predominantly limestone-rich environment, identifying the depositional and erosional environments associated with a particular area and annotating to sketches. Habitat Study Habitat Study...
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Growing up with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing up with Disability

...working towards the inclusion of disabled children and young adults in social activities and organisations, encouraging friendships and fun. It looks at PLUS from the view of the children, the carers and the families. This material forms part of The Open University course KE312 Working together for children... Growing up with Disability A short introduction to this album....
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Exploring the classical world
History & The Arts

Exploring the classical world

...works in modern English. The material is drawn from The Open University course A219 Exploring the classical world... Exploring the classical world A brief introduction to this album. Interpreting Homer Reading' classical texts and the differing philosophies of translation, with a dramatised example from the Lattimore translation of Homer's Odyssey. Homer's people...
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Audio 2 hrs 54 mins
Design and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Sustainability

...development Issues that a product designer should consider in order to make a product sustainable. Incorporating sustainability in product design The future challenges of sustainability that designers face and how these could be resolved. The five principles in design project work In support of how the five principles of sustainability can help in design project work....
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Global responses to Darwin's ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Global responses to Darwin's ideas

...work of Charles Darwin and the impact his ideas about evolution continue to have on today’s world. © British Council 2009... Global responses to Darwin's ideas A brief introduction to this album. Darwin's controversial reception Prior to publishing his theories, Darwin built up a network of supporters around the world. Nevertheless, his theory of evolution prompted a...
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Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...work together. That idea about change existed long before the Open University. But how was it transmitted? This banner, recently found in the village hall in Fringford, Oxfordshire, can be used to help us find out. This banner was made in the late nineteenth-century for a branch of a friendly society, a voluntary, mutual aid body. This one was called the Independent Order...
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Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...work through the course independently or with others. Case studies, vignettes and audio/video material developed through empirical research are used to bring alive the value and application of the toolkit...‘Relational care’ is a developing approach to care which can help address many of the challenges faced by the older adult care sector. It provides benefits not...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs