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Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...concepts might need to be read more than once. Your learning materials will be on a screen, but the skills you use to read and understand them are similar. Studying will include opportunities for you to engage in online learning activities. Being a digital learner can help you develop essential skills for study, work and lifelong learning. For example, modules that teach...
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...concepts and principles you have learned in this part are: metallic bonding, and how it is related to metallic characteristics Metallic bonding is the attraction between the delocalised electrons and the positively charged nuclei. It is strong and occurs in all directions. Transitions of electrons from excited states to lower energy levels result in emission spectra....
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...concepts and principles you have studied in this part are: how clinical trials are used today in medicine Clinical trials use a control group and a treatment group. the importance of acting ethically in scientific research The UK Research and Integrity Office advises on good practice on scientific research. why it is important to continue to ask moral questions about...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...concept of ‘Vanakkam’, and you’ve also been introduced to some fruits from Tamil Nadu and instruments used in Tamil music. If you enjoyed this taster in Tamil and would be interested in a longer, paid-for version of the course, you can express you interest by e-mailing oclc@open.ac.uk. Please provide your name and contact email address. Your contact details will be...
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...conception of their moral identity. We know that he’s interested in, association of psychology that his basic sense of what the individual is, is a series of impressions formed by experience basically upon an empty of blank beginning. There is no fundamental predisposition towards good or evil, this is the crucial Owenite point. The notion that man does not form his own...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...concept of ‘leader’ (strong; rational; independent; linear thinking; aggressive; competitive) bear a close resemblance to words commonly associated with male (strong; in control/domineering; husband/father/brother; macho; power; rational). We should be careful here, however, to not portray this as a sex-based argument, a male-female issue. Rather, it is better to...
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...concepts on methods or techniques which may go alongside other teaching content. And then I think finally more broadly, I think, as a way of working, I think we are continuing with many of our meetings conducted online. That we are more flexible in the working conditions we are able to offer staff with more working from home. And it's important, I think, that we do still...
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...conception of academic, non-academic, abstract, theoretical, vocational, and see it for what it is: a myth. Second, we have to recognise that most great learning happens in groups; the collaboration is the stuff of growth. If we atomise people, and separate them, and judge them separately, we form a kind of disjunction between them and their natural learning environment....