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Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...free course, Systems diagramming, looks at how diagrams can be used to represent information and ideas about complex situations. You will learn how to read, draw and present diagrams to help illustrate how ideas or processes are connected. Please note: This course contains a Flash activity which is no longer playable. It is being updated. This course can still be studied,...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...free, short course produced in collaboration with MoneySavingExpert.com...Understanding mortgages is a free, short course produced in collaboration with MoneySavingExpert.com. The course explores the mortgage products available in the UK market – their interest rate and other characteristics – and examines the factors involved in making good choices from the product...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...free course, Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts, we will try to provide at least a basic understanding so we can answer these questions and begin to understand why knowing about the heart is important for all sports people. Before that we will take a look at the human body...We all know that the heart is very important but what exactly does the heart...
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...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 understanding and...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...free course, Social marketing, examines the nature of social marketing and how the adoption of marketing concepts, frameworks and techniques developed for commercial marketers can be applied to the solution of social problems...Never before have social issues been more at the centre of public and private debate. From concerns about sustainability and the future of the...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...free course, Building relationships with donors, will help you to gain the skills necessary to persuade individuals to become donors. How do you change people's ideas about methods of giving, moving them from casual street donations to regular direct debit giving?...Legacy fundraising and big-gift seeking are part of the professional fundraiser's role. This free course,...
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...free course, English in the world today, explores the status of the language and its worldwide diversity. It looks at how social and political factors influence people's attitudes towards it, and at the relationship between one's linguistic heritage and sense of identity...How did English become the global force it is today? This free course, English in the world today,...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...free course, Multidisciplinary study: the values and benefits, explores the advantages of studying more than one subject and will help you to decide if multidisciplinary study is for you. Featuring videos with students on the Open University’s ‘Open’ qualifications, you will learn about the unique skills you can gain from studying a multi-subject qualification and...