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Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...think you'd finished the bottom, and then you'd just fall even more. And you get lost in the system. NARRATOR They all found transition challenging, especially when so much else in life was changing too. JAMIE To be treated for eating disorders, there's a certain criteria you have to have for the different eating disorders. But quite a lot of them are like loss of periods...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...think differently by setting aside the instinct to do everything themselves because they know they’re best at it. Entrepreneurs have to be able and prepared to bring on board a team to spread the load and provide diversity of thinking and new ideas. You will return to financing your business in more detail in Session 7...Session 2: From idea to reality: 3.2 What are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...thinking will enhance your practice of creative writing; the more you learn about how texts operate, the better equipped you’ll be as a writer. Reading as a writer, also known as ‘critical reading’ or ‘close reading’, involves analysing how a piece works and how an author achieves particular effects. For instance, when reading a short story, you might consider...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...think they should be interested in corporations because they throw up all sorts of philosophical puzzles and conundrums; what kinds of properties do corporations have? How are these corporations related to the individual human beings that make them up? Nigel: But there are all kinds of groups of people who philosophers don’t get excited about. A queue waiting to get a...
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How to become an ethical researcher
Education & Development

How to become an ethical researcher

...think about effective informed consent and assent and what do we mean? ...Effective informed consent and assent is at the heart of being an ethical researcher. Being an ethical researcher is about doing ‘good’ research in the ‘right’ way. Researchers often think about what ‘good’ research is from their own researcher point of view. But they don't think about...
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Article 5 mins
What is the Neurodiversity Hub?
Education & Development

What is the Neurodiversity Hub?

...thinking about neurodiversity and how it shapes study and everyday life. Why Neurodiversity? Neurodiversity can be thought of broadly as the range of different ways individual’s brains function across a population. An individual whose brain may function differently can be thought of as neurodivergent and it is these individuals that make up a neurodiverse population....
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Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...think that when things are going well I describe my job as someone who supports a fabulous team of people doing wonderful things; when things don’t go so well, it’s all my fault. You can find me on Twitter @natureboytim I’ve been a naturalist since I can remember, so my Twitter handle is @natureboytim, because that is what defines me, that is who I am and probably...
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Video 40 mins
The how and why of podcasting: connection, creation and conversation!
Education & Development

The how and why of podcasting: connection, creation and conversation!

...thinking about podcasts is to focus on the 3 Cs – connection, creation and conversation!...Find out more about The Open University's Open Degree. Transcript Podcasting is an effective way of building trust and sharing insights between people with different backgrounds and experiences. They can introduce audiences to topics and debates that share new perspectives. Take a...
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Video 10 mins