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Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...course, Secondary learning, will identify and explore some of the key issues around learning and teaching in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your practice as a secondary teacher and develop a greater awareness of how students learn and how to take account of this in your planning and in your...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...course, The social nature of being human, will introduce you to several of the social aspects of humanity and being human. Some of these are obvious, as, during the course, you will think about crowd behaviour and consider traditional dilemmas of being in crowds. Others will be less obvious, such as the seemingly intimate and private act of charitable giving to the...
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...course, Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere, examines the emergence of icy satellites of distant planets as potential sites of extraterrestrial life, looks at the potential for life on Jupiter's moon Europa, and speculates on the ethics of searching for life elsewhere in the solar system...The new discipline of astrobiology that is, the science of searching for...
Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain

...anfwriadol, bydd y cyhoeddwyr yn hapus i wneud y trefniadau gofynnol ar y cyfle cyntaf. Peidiwch â cholli cyfle Os yw darllen y testun hwn wedi eich ysbrydoli i ddysgu mwy, efallai y bydd gennych ddiddordeb mewn ymuno â'r miliynau o bobl sy'n darganfod ein hadnoddau dysgu a chymwysterau am ddim trwy droi at y Brifysgol Agored – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...course you’ll examine one of Agatha Christie’s most significant works, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and explore the evolution of British detective fiction in relation to Christie’s background, literary modernism and the development of middlebrow fiction...When we think of twentieth century literature as a popular cultural form, Agatha Christie (1890–1976),...
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...course, Partnerships and networks in work with young people, you will explore a range of meanings for the word 'partnership' and see that it is used to describe a range of practices, structures and processes. You will also look at some of the difficulties, as well as the potential benefits, that can come from working in partnership...The term 'partnership' is used to...
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...course, Continuing classical Latin, gives you the opportunity to hear a discussion of the development of the Latin language...This free course, Continuing classical Latin, gives you the opportunity to hear a discussion of the development of the Latin language....Continuing classical Latin: Introduction - This course features a discussion that shows how languages develop...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...course, The poetry of Sorley MacLean, will introduce you to his poetry and give you an insight into the cultural, historical and political contexts that inform his work. MacLean wrote in Gaelic and the importance of the language to his work is also examined...Sorley MacLean (1911-1996) is regarded as one of the greatest Scottish poets of the twentieth century. This free...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs