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From the course: Excel Essential Training (Microsoft 365) (2022)

Getting started with Excel for Microsoft 365

- [Instructor] Being efficient at Excel is considered one of the most incredibly beneficial and indispensable skills that you can offer your team. Excel, being as widely used as it is, is vital to the functioning of most workplace environments. It provides an extensive set of features for managing and analyzing data. In my LinkedIn course, I'll cover Excel's menu system, how to create formulas and use simple functions, how to format your data, how to sort and filter large lists, how to create charts, and a lot more. This course is intended to take you from beginner to intermediate. If you're already pretty experienced with Excel, be sure to check out the many intermediate courses available on LinkedIn Learning. You can also control the speed of the course on the bottom-right corner of the LinkedIn Learning player window, in case you want to speed up or slow down any of the lessons. So if you're ready, join me, Dennis Taylor, as we get started with Excel Essential Training for Microsoft 365.

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Delivery

Self-guided online learning

Online course description

In the UK, the Government's 25-year Environment Plan aims to improve the natural environment within a generation and to reconnect people with nature. To achieve that, people everywhere need to feel that nature matters to them.

The University of Derby is leading the development of ground-breaking evidence that explains what nature connectedness is, how it can be measured, its benefits for human and environmental wellbeing - and, importantly, how it can be improved. This course covers that work.

This free online course provides an opportunity for you to learn about Nature Connectedness and the value of having a strong relationship with nature. Made up of eight short units, the course encourages you to actively consider our relationships with nature, for our own well-being as well as for the longer-term benefit of nature and the natural world.

During the course, you will look at why nature connectedness matters and how it can be improved. You'll learn about our Pathways to Nature Connectedness Framework and will look at how you can use this framework to positively impact our connections with nature, pro-nature and environmental behaviours and our overall well-being.

The course content is informed by nationally recognised research and written by Professor Miles Richardson, a Professor of Nature Connectedness, together with colleagues from the Nature Connectedness Research Group.

The course is open to anyone and will be of particular interest to those who feel passionate about nature and pro-nature behaviours, our relationship with the natural world and its influences on our well-being.

97% agree that the course content and resources are interesting*

From a leading authority

Our research into nature connectedness has been named by Universities UK as one of the UK's 100 best breakthroughs for its impact.

"I liked how there were activities that really related to the content, they helped me stay engaged and were very thought provoking. Yes, i do think this course will positively impact my work practice, previous to this course i had very little knowledge about the concept of nature connectedness and after studying this course i can make positive changes."

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Structure, certificates and assessment

High quality free online learning experience

In 2016, the University of Derby received the OpenupEd quality label. This means that the University of Derby is recognised as operating in a continuous process of improving their MOOC offerings. By achieving this label the University of Derby demonstrates that it offers quality controlled MOOCs in compliance with benchmarks tailored to both online and open education and keeps up to date with the latest developments. Furthermore, that it uses the OpenupEd quality instrument for benchmarked self-assessment on MOOCs and takes measures of improvement accordingly.

An accredited provider of the CPD Standards Office

We are proud to be an accredited provider of the CPD Standards Office for our online short courses and free courses, demonstrating that they conform to CPD best practice and are appropriate for inclusion in a formal CPD record.

Learning outcomes

An understanding of the psychological construct of nature connectedness

An understanding of why nature connectedness matters for human and nature's wellbeing

An understanding of how to improve nature connectedness

Course requirements

How to enrol

All of our free courses are delivered through an easy-to-use online learning platform, which you can enrol from directly.

What you will need

The course is free and widely available for anyone to take part in regardless of age, location or education status.

However, there are some basic requirements. You will need access to the internet whether it is on your PC, tablet, mobile or other electronic devices, as well as a valid email address to register with our online learning environment in order to take part in the course.

You will need to agree to the terms and conditions before you start the course which will be available when you enrol.

Course creators

Professor Miles Richardson

Course author

Miles is Professor of Human Factors and Nature Connectedness and founded the Nature Connectedness Research Group at the University of Derby. The group has pioneered the first interventions to bring about sustained increases in nature connectedness, bringing about improved wellbeing and pro-nature behaviours. In 2018 its work was named by Universities UK as one of the UK's 100 best research breakthroughs for impact.

Since launch in 2013, Miles has worked with several conservation NGOs, including the National Trust, RSPB and on 30 Days Wild with The Wildlife Trusts. Miles also works closely with Natural England, for example, on the development of the Nature Connection Index (NCI) which informs the new People and Nature Survey, as does the Pro-nature Conservation Behaviour Scale recently developed at Derby. Miles launched the Nature Connections conference series in 2015 and the Tune into Nature Music Prize in 2020.

Recent research projects include the £1.3m Improving Wellbeing through Urban Wellbeing project. Based on Miles' 'noticing the good things in nature' intervention, the research developed a smartphone intervention that delivered clinically significant improvements in mental health.

Dr Ryan Lumber

Course researcher

After graduating from the University of Derby with a BSc in Psychology and with an MSc in Psychological Wellbeing and Mental Health from Nottingham Trent University, Ryan was awarded a full scholarship for a PhD at Derby in 2013. The PhD investigated the Pathways to Nature Connectedness that were placed in the MadeAtUni campaign's top 100 innovations from UK institutions to have improved people's lives, being used by the National Trust and many others in the UK and internationally.

After completing the PhD, Ryan worked as a Lecturer in Psychology at De Montfort University before returning to the University of Derby in 2019.

During his time researching Nature Connectedness, Ryan has conducted a number of external projects including:

A one-year evaluation of the impact of the newly created 'Notice Nature Feel Joy' gallery at Derby Museum on behalf of the University of Derby (2015-2016).

A commissioned report for Natural England entitled "Nature Connections 2016 Conference Report: Implications for Research and Practice" published in 2017.

Dr Holli-Anne Passmore

Course researcher

It is important to acknowledge the collaborative efforts on creation of the MOOC and the research into Nature Connectedness with researcher, Dr Holli-Anne Passmore, who has since relocated back to Canada to continue her work with the psychology department of the Concordia University of Edmonton.

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How to enrol

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