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Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...study in Engineering...Groups and teamwork: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the main features of work groups and teams discuss the main group processes that affect work group or team effectiveness describe the main features of projects, project teams and project management discuss some types of theories about effective...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Home education collection
Education & Development

Home education collection

...Studies qualification. [A young student is on their laptop studying with bookcases behind in the background] Home education, homeschooling or elective home education, as it is also sometimes referred to in the UK, garnered significant public attention during periods of pandemic disrupted schooling and online learning because of national lockdowns between 2020-2021. Yet...
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Article 5 mins
Social Care: Past and Present
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social Care: Past and Present

...skills of health and social care workers by the reduction of long term hospital provision and the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act Butetown Women The memories of care and support in Cardiff's Butetown in the 1930s recalled by five former residents. Something to Offer: LETS Schemes The idea of providing people with the opportunity to trade skills and goods...
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Audio 3 hrs 7 mins
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. After completing this course, you will be able to: recognise the importance of effective communication in the sector in benefitting sport and fitness participants’ experiences evaluate your own communication skills demonstrate an awareness of being able to build and sustain...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes
Science, Maths & Technology

Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes

...studying asteroids allow us to have a better understanding of the formation of our solar system? Samuel Jackson, PhD student in The School of Physical Sciences digs into the research...At the Open University we are looking at asteroids with the OpenScience Observatories to study their rotation and surface. To understand the conditions present in the early solar system, we...
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Article 10 mins
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...study the various techniques the Babylonians used for problem-solving and teaching. The Babylonian problem-solving skills have been described as remarkable and scribes of the time received a training far in advance of anything available in medieval Christian Europe 3000 years later...This free course looks at Babylonian mathematics. You will learn how a series of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...skills Watch a video and list four or five action points. 10 mins Activity 4 Improving coaching dialogue Using coaching techniques in practice. 20 mins Activity 5 Observing and supporting Outline your thoughts on lesson observation. 20 mins...Week 3: Moving mentoring towards coaching: Learning outcomes - By the end of this week, you should be able to: articulate the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...studying this free course, Reading evidence, you will be focusing on the variety of methods for presenting and organising qualitative and quantitative evidence in the form of numbers and text. You will learn how to understand the ways in which evidence is presented and to read it actively and with purpose...What is active reading? It is reading with the aim of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs