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History & The Arts
A freelance career in the creative arts
A freelance career in the creative arts is a free badged course which lasts 8 weeks, with approximately 3 hours’ study time each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week, there’s nothing to stop you pushing on and completing another week’s study. This course has a specific focus on the ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
What do we need to know about our memory?
Our brain changes as we age, but are there any ways we can improve our memory and thinking skills? This article explores...
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Education & Development
Succeed in the workplace
Do you want to change jobs, are you just starting in the job market or may be returning after a break? If so, then this free course, Succeed in the workplace, is for you. It will help you explore career opportunities. You will also gain the skills to write strong CVs and application forms, and to handle different types of interviews. By the end ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Sport and Exercise
Welcome to the Sport and Exercise OpenLearn suggestions for YASS students.
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Science, Maths & Technology
The benefits of a longer product life
A savvy shift in industrial resourcefulness is reflected in products that last longer, are adaptable, maintainable, and repairable. Such products optimise material value through preventing waste. These design strategies challenge the ways we create, use, and dispose of our everyday stuff. By extending the utility of our products, we reduce ...
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Money & Business
Systems Practice case study - The CEO
Jemima Almey is the CEO of a small but successful consultancy group - how does systems thinking shape her role?
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Money & Business
Systems in action: Pea canning case study
A challenge to a canning company's business required some quick changes.
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Money & Business
Systems thinking: a select glossary
Get to grips with the terms which drive systems thinking.
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Money & Business
Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?
Why is feedback so essential to keep on the right course?
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Nature & Environment
Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Divestment from fossil fuels has increased over the last decade as a moral and financial response to the climate crisis, but is it an effective approach to tackle the severity of challenges we now face and how can it support the goals of COP26?
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Nature & Environment
Managing our personal financial risks from the changed climate
You might now understand what COP stands for, but have you heard of the TCFD requirements?
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Money & Business
Learn with Start Up Loans
A partnership designed to help UK businesses get off the ground and stay there.