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Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...communities, discusses the most common forms of community empowerment, and explores the barriers to community empowerment and ways that these can be overcome. It will conclude by looking at crime and criminality: a particular challenge that can arise if communities are not sufficiently empowered and supported...This free course, Empowering communities, discusses ......
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Reading communities
Education & Development

Reading communities

...communities? These videos explore...The TaRs research project found that RfP is strongly influenced by relationships between children, teachers, families and communities. Where shared understandings were established about the changing nature of reading and the value of everyday reading practices, these supported children’s RfP. These reading communities generated new...
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Video 30 mins
Volunteering in the community
Education & Development

Volunteering in the community

...community can have a big impact. Read stories from OU staff on why they volunteer, what it means and how others can get involved...[Group of people joining hands] There are a range of ways to be active in your community, from formal volunteering with an organisation or public body to doing things by yourself or with neighbours to make the place you live a little better...
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Article 5 mins
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...communications became commercially viable in the 1970s and innovation continues today. This free course, Digital communications, will illustrate how very high data rates can be transmitted over long distances through optical fibres. You will learn how these fibres are linked, examine the technology used and assess the future direction of this continually developing area...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Communication in the healthcare sector
Education & Development

Communication in the healthcare sector

...communication in Health and Social Care...Types of communication in the healthcare sector [Communication in the healthcare sector page images] This is a resource that highlights forms of communication in Health and Social Care. The resource applies to students studying level 3 concepts in the field such as Principles and Contexts or A levels. Open this resouce....
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Activity 5 mins
Investigating bacterial communication
Science, Maths & Technology

Investigating bacterial communication

...communicate with each other, and if they do communicate, how and why do they do so? And how might understanding the mechanisms of bacterial communication be used to inform development of anti-bacterial drugs? In this album scientists involved in pioneering work into bacterial 'quorum sensing'' at Nottingham University in the UK reveal some of the techniques they use and...
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Audio 21 mins
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...communication. Discover how to express yourself clearly, understand others better, and adapt your communication skills for a range of situations, from everyday conversations to the digital workplaces of the future...Many of the problems we encounter in the workplace are the result of poor communication. Whether we are frustrated by a lack of information from senior...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...community and ICT, engages with the debates surrounding the term 'creativity' and explores ways in which ICT creates new opportunities for creativity and collaborative working. The course would be of interest to teachers, parents and carers, and can be studied on an individual basis or as part of a school-based training session...What do you think being creative means?...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs