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Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...Badged courses are all available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything to study. They differ from Open University courses because you do not receive support from a tutor. But you do get useful feedback from the interactive quizzes. What is a badge? Digital badges are a new way of demonstrating online ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...Open University course A229 Introducing the Classical World...Introducing Homer's Iliad: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the plot of the Iliad and the wider cycle of myths of which it was a part identify characteristic features that show how the Iliad was composed orally use these features to think about and interpret the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...course. It’s also good practice, if you access a link from within a course page, to open it in a new window or tab. That way you can easily return to where you’ve come from without having to use the back button on your browser...Course introduction: 2 Key questions - In this introduction, you will be guided by the following questions: What do we mean when we talk...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community . The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about eight weeks. However, it......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is ......
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Succeed with learning Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...badge. Badged courses are a key part of The Open University’s mission to promote the educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...badged open courses: Succeed with learning and English: skills for learning...Week 5: Work, inequality and diversity in families: 1.4 How work is divided in different families - The extract in Activity 1 stated that the way household tasks are divided depends partly on ‘the beliefs partners have about the role each should play’, that is, what social scientists call...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...badged open course, Succeeding in postgraduate study, will introduce you to the nature of Master's level study. It offers essential preparation for pursuing your learning at this level. Watch the following trailer in which the authors, Eric Addae-Kyeremeh and Payam Rezaie, introduce the course. Transcript This free course will help you to become familiar with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs