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Autumn on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

Autumn on OpenLearn

...project, making something with your hands can be both relaxing and rewarding. 7: Take time to reset Autumn invites us to slow down, recharge and adapt to the shorter days. Whether it’s practising mindfulness, getting outside for daylight, or finding balance in your daily routine, this season is perfect for nurturing your wellbeing. 8: Celebrate the major autumnal events...
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Article 5 mins
Working with children and families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working with children and families

...project and a local crèche - their services and the impact they have on the local area. Parental involvement Parents discuss the importance of partnership and working with schools, and how their children are assisted and encouraged by such involvement. Children and disability A discussion of the problems and pressures experienced by parents of disabled children,...
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Audio 2 hrs 46 mins
Exploring children's difficulties with language and literacy
Education & Development

Exploring children's difficulties with language and literacy

...project, designed to help poor comprehenders. Specific language impairment Speech and language therapist Dr Susan Ebbels talks about the process of identification and assessment of children with SLI, and the usefulness of SLI as a diagnostic category. Susan works at Moor House School, a specialist school for children with primary language impairments aged 7-16 years....
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Audio 1 hr 30 mins
Environmental responsibility
Nature & Environment

Environmental responsibility

...ways of looking at responsibility in terms of accountability. Album overview: TD866 - Environmental Responsibility Course Chair Martin Reynolds, Lecturer in Systems and Environments breaks down and summarises the tracks on this album, Martin focuses on different ways in which we can engage with nature in the natural world and looks closely at The Creative Climate project....
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Audio 1 hr 42 mins
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...management...Supply chain sustainability: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what is meant by sustainability in the context of the supply chain explain the four perspectives of supply chain sustainability assess the degree of sustainability in your (or any other) organisation from each of these four perspectives, and provide...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...management corporations. Politics moved away from the idea of making society better, and instead became about the prediction and management of risk. Transcript The political narrative, hollowed out by simplification and often intentionally contradiction, took on a surreal aspect. As Curtis is fond of saying, ‘nothing quite made sense anymore’ as politicians’ stories...
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Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list
History & The Arts

Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list

...project for an Argentine publisher: Although he disliked the bureaucratic boredom of library work, Borges was better suited than perhaps anyone for a curatorial role. Given this reputation, Borges was asked more than once to select his favorite novels and stories for published anthologies. One such multi-volume project, titled Personal Library, saw Borgesselecting 74...
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No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...Project fear’, and even attacking dissent as treasonous. The danger of allowing an ingroup narrative to remain unchallenged is that it delegitimises debate about the terms of Brexit, becoming a de-facto mechanism of silencing dissent. It also risks polarising and dividing the country, whilst disempowering the 48% percent who voted against leaving. Ironically, whilst the...
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