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The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation − which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...management ideas contribute to success while also taking you on a journey through unique sporting case studies and insights that will change how you view and study sport. You will consider how the mind, the body, the environment and training techniques all contribute to optimum fitness...Have you experience of sport or fitness coaching either as a participant or a coach?...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...management or organisational behaviour, in the writings of Geoffrey Vickers, Russell Ackoff or other systems experts, to know that this is exactly how both public and private sector bureaucracies do behave. The driving forces in the DNA of every bureaucracy are the twin desires for survival and growth. When you divide complex, deeply interconnected and interdependent...
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Video 15 mins
How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...managed to connect with blue-collar voters in the Great Lakes region. But Trump’s anti-immigration and protectionist trade policies gave him a unique opening with white working-class voters, and he made the most of it. 4. Outsiders against insiders Trump will be the first president without elective office experience since Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s. Eisenhower,...
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Article 5 mins
The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers

...manage increasingly challenging behaviours of persons with complex physical and/or mental health needs, particularly during the outbreak, as they cannot engage with their usual outdoors coping mechanisms. As highlighted in our BBC1 broadcast on 4 May 2020, the increased demand for coping leaves even less time for carers to engage with physical activity. Carers, due to...
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Article 10 mins
Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...managed the delivery of the Democratic Set in Milton Keynes for The Open University, working with Ursula White of Independent Cinema Milton Keynes (ICMK) to engage the widest possible range of local participants though a community liaison programme. An open call was made to recruit participants from a wide range of ages and backgrounds, with 30 groups responding and 131...
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Article 20 mins
Glenariff to Fermanagh
OpenLearn Ireland

Glenariff to Fermanagh

...managed to find their way to places they would not normally be...Video Transcript PAT JESS: Beautiful, absolutely wonderful. DARRYL GRIMASON: Fantastic. PAT JESS: And you really see the flat floor, even though that’s covered with the debris, but the flat floor that the glacier scooped out and running up the steep sides up to the hills. Standing here, you can just...
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Video 5 mins
An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill
Health, Sports & Psychology

An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill

...management team was established in 2009 as a group of young people who were experiencing or who had been through a family health crisis themselves and wanted to use their past experiences to help others. Our research highlights that targeted support for children and young people living with a loved one who is seriously ill is both inconsistent and inequitable.Hope works...
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Article 15 mins