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Ocean explorer
Nature & Environment

Ocean explorer

...become an oceanographer. Explore ocean depths, currents, temperatures and find out more about the future of our oceans. ...This content is associated with The Open University's Environment courses and qualifications. Click here to launch the game now. [Launch image for Ocean Explorer game.] Select the image above to begin. Instructions For best results, use a modern web...
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Activity 20 mins
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...become popular. The resultant prizes (a Friday film and popcorn, for example, for the class with the highest percentage of parents’ signatures) are positioned as incentives, but such extrinsic motivators rarely work in the long term. They encourage children to read for recognition, for reward, for their parents, their teachers and/or the school, but not for themselves....
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Article 10 mins
Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...is out of our personal control and committing to action that improves our lives...Becoming stuck Many people end up in jobs or careers that may have originally been satisfying, but now don’t fit with their current personal situation (such as family or caring commitments) or feel boring or ‘not right’ anymore. It may also feel like you have achieved all your work goals but are still unfulfilled. You are stuck: the normal ......
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Article 10 mins
Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening
Society, Politics & Law

Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening

...become in order to fit in or not and what has become important or why; and in order to come to that point, you have to get to the more personal story … it’s more a process of revealing through a conversation …and as they talk, they’re almost working it out - they may not have really thought like that until they are in this sort of conversation; so it’s the...
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Audio 5 mins
World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Christine de Pizan

...becoming one of the first female writers in Europe. Find out more about her life... Christine de Pizan c.1364 - c.1430 France Literature [Christine de Pizan image] Christine de Pizan lecturing to a group of men, 1413. During the late middle ages in Europe, few women had any control over the direction their lives took. The two principal routes open to them were marriage or...
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Article 5 mins
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...OU volunteers say about why they started voluntary work...Using Voluntary work to get ahead in the job market: 2.1 Introduction - 'All experiences count and are valuable and no one should push those aside. It really doesn't matter where that experience was gained. It's about what you learnt from it… don't devalue yourself. Recognise the importance of what you've done.'...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
A brief introduction to co-design
Science, Maths & Technology

A brief introduction to co-design

...becoming important in the face of complex social, political, environmental, educational and technological issues...Click here to view our short animations on co-design approaches This brief animation introduces the concept of co-design: what it is, why it is needed and what role professional designers can play in making it happen. Transcript If you are interested to learn...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...student, or as a qualified social worker. Becoming a critical practitioner is an ongoing process rather than an end point. It is often done in conjunction with others, for example in supervision, through collaboration with people with lived experience and alongside other social work and interprofessional colleagues. In this course, you will look at a theoretical model...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs