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Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...research and education there are increasing opportunities for band 4 NAs to progress without requiring the degree Transfer to Nursing (top-up) programme to be a registered nurse. You may be interested in Sam’s story below where she chose to pursue a leadership related degree, now working in a band 6 role with potential to progress further. Many people do not wish to...
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Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...research and data collection on conditions such as anorexia and bulimia. Data analysis by the Guardian shows there is also a hidden epidemic among men and growing waiting times for children and young people seeking help. (Marsh, 2021) Discussion These two stories are concerned with issues around mental health. The general picture they present is one of a decline in young...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...research sets out to describe the particularity of people’s experiences. DARREN: My own research has been mostly concerned with understanding the lived experience of sexual identities. A particularly interesting study that I conducted was concerned with understanding the expectations of young gay men for parenthood. As a gay man coming out some years ago, I recall...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...researching how users interact with products apply comparison and evaluation skills, including constructive criticism of everyday products apply observational skills in the context of both personal and others' use of products...People-centred designing: 1 People-centred designing - This unit provides a taster of one of the most important concerns in product design - that...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...research and scholarship. b.Within The Open University there are very many types of information that are required to meet this mission. Examples include the following: Teaching information – this information is provided in the huge range of courses that the OU produces, thus supporting the first, third and fourth of the mission statements. By providing teaching...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...one vote’. In this way, a blockchain can act as a provenance protocol for sharing data across disparate semi-trusting organisations. An overview of OU research on blockchain can be found at this link. Click here to download the video transcript (PDF) This article is adapted from an OpenLearn Create course under a Creative Commons license. Visit the original course....
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Developing reading for pleasure in the classroom with student and early career teachers
Education & Development

Developing reading for pleasure in the classroom with student and early career teachers

...research with student teachers in the UK highlighted gaps in their knowledge of contemporary texts and authors as well as misconceptions about the teacher’s role in supporting children’s RfP (Cremin et al., 2024). Barriers from individual teacher reader identities and varied school experiences may also need to be addressed (Hendry, 2022). Supporting new teachers...
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Video 20 mins
Exploring the depth of the Antarctic ice sheet...
Nature & Environment

Exploring the depth of the Antarctic ice sheet...

...research at The Open University...If you ask someone what the weather will be like tomorrow, they will first look out of the window. That is because tomorrow’s weather is highly dependent on today’s weather, despite all the complexities of the moving air masses in the atmosphere. The air moves faster than ice sheets, therefore, it is easy to imagine that the current...
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