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Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...manage the smooth running of our domiciliary service. The Garth is a private family-owned business in Kington, in Herefordshire. The Garth is a thirty-four-bed registered care home, but it also has attached to it the domiciliary side, so we go out into the local community and provide care for people in their own home, so this enables them to stay in their own homes, in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...manager of the CUPA centre, “is that the Animal Birth Control program is as much about human welfare as it is for dogs.” This is part of an ongoing – and some say uphill – battle to eliminate rabies from India. Around 59,000 people die from rabies every year, according to a 2015 study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The overwhelming majority are in...
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Article 10 mins
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...manage that human/nature interaction much better and address some of the really big issues around poaching and the economic situations of some of the poorest areas of the world. Releasing BBC natural history archive to the public: The consequences So I’ve spent a lot of time rummaging around in the Natural History Unit archives when I was at the BBC, initially on a...
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Video 30 mins
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...management programme, which, in turn, improves people's self-esteem, and so on. Physical activity and mental health: what's the evidence? Make a list of the types of research they discuss (e.g. epidemiological research). Search for definitions of these types of research using the internet.) Why is it important to provide research evidence of the link between exercise and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...manage uncertainty became critical. Many had to make decisions and implement complicated changes, including digital transformation at an accelerated pace, to pivot most of the workforce to remote working during lockdowns. The video below provides some insights from contributors about their experiencing of adapting ways of working during the COVID-19 pandemic. LOUISE...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...manage your digital badges online from your OpenLearn Profile. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn Statement of participation – which also displays your badge. This course has been produced as part of the Department for Education's Flexible Learning Fund, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and with the kind support of Dangoor Education,...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our start-of-course survey. Once...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...Managing for sustainability...Financial methods in environmental decisions: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: understand techniques for the financial appraisal of projects understand private and external costs of environmental impacts and their mitigation understand methods for assessing the economics of environmental impacts understand...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs