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Beating procrastination with the Pomodoro Technique
Education & Development

Beating procrastination with the Pomodoro Technique

Short bursts of action can help motivate you while you study. This short animation tells you more about the Pomodoro Technique...Find out more about The Open University's BA/BSc (Honours) Open degree. Transcript Watch the other animations in this series
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60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Large Hadron Collider
Science, Maths & Technology

60 Second Adventures in Astronomy: Large Hadron Collider

Turns out the Large Hadron Collider is not as dangerous as we thought...Find out about The Open University's Natural Sciences courses. Transcript Read Stephen Serjeant on why we need to build the LHC Discover how you can study physics and astronomy with The Open University
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Learning our way to a better environment
Nature & Environment

Learning our way to a better environment

...The Open University has been teaching and researching about the environment for over 50 years from many different disciplines and perspectives. We have helped thousands of students from many different backgrounds gain new knowledge, skills and insights into the science, policies and practices that shape our world today and are needed for a more sustainable tomorrow....
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National Storytelling Week
History & The Arts

National Storytelling Week

...skills in order to pen your masterpiece. Want to be the next poet laureate? Fancy crafting a beautiful sonnet or a snappy haiku? Learn more about poetic techniques with these free materials. Don't like writing? Perform your tales Do you prefer the vintage style of performing your stories as opposed to writing them down? Learn more about great performances here. Find out...
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Cannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination

...skills? This album offers a chance to see how psychologists perform experiments which measure how much cannabis distorts a normal state of consciousness. Tracks 5-8 explore human inventiveness, pointing out that nothing in the world could have been made without the human capacity for imagination. Evolutionary anthropologists use the example of tool-making, showing that...
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David Lucey
Education & Development

David Lucey

...studying again in the future. He discovered what he calls ‘an amazing resource’, as he explains...[David Lucey, OpenLearn user case study] ‘For anyone who is thinking about learning on OpenLearn, I'd recommend you give it a chance. It's an amazing resource - the materials are freely available and there's something for everyone!’ ‘For anyone who is thinking about...
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There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!
Health, Sports & Psychology

There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!

...study showed that the 24-hour cycle which determines when you wake and sleep gets later during your teens, reaching its latest point by the age of 20. After 20, the body’s waking and sleeping times gradually get earlier again, until at 55 you naturally wake about the same time as you did when you were 10. The link between the movements of this biological clock and the...
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What is Indigenous Psychology?
Education & Development

What is Indigenous Psychology?

...study. Yet, ecology and psychology are very closed related. We need to use an indigenous psychology lens to understand the interdependency between psychological knowledge and ecology. What is indigenous psychology? Indigenous psychology is an alternative paradigm to study human behaviour. The alternative paradigm suggests that the exploration of human thoughts and actions...
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