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'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...Community...Find out more about The Open University's Social Sciences courses and qualifications. 1969 was the year that a human first landed on the moon. It was also the year that I first saw a Black person on the telly. Both events were equally stellar for me. I was allowed to stay up late, even though it was a school night (I was only seven), to watch the grainy but...
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People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...communal settings such as care homes it is not always easy to cater for individual tastes, as the needs of a group of residents may have to be balanced (McDermott et al, 2014). You can complete this Playlist for Life chart to identify your musical preferences and begin to map your musical identity and see how these link with key memories from your own life. Making music...
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Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...communication and meeting platforms mean that hybrid working now has the potential to be a more streamlined and efficient experience. However, hybrid work was still an uncommon practice, even into the late 2010s. It was only the COVID-19 pandemic which accelerated the numbers of hybrid workers, with lockdowns forcing many people to work from home if they could. Almost...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...community shop. Dafydd is a sheep farmer who, together with his wife Ffion, works off farm to supplement the farming income. He wants to diversify into the holiday let business by turning three redundant barns into eco-friendly self-catering accommodation. Gwenllian is a language teacher living in a fairly remote area of mid-Wales where access to learning is difficult...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...Communicate (allows two way communication between citizens, patients or healthcare professionals). The final section illustrates Evidence tier one; these are Systems services (DHTs with no measurable patient outcomes but which provide services to the health and social care system).] Figure 2 NICE (2019) Evidence Standards framework for digital health technologies....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...la (shortened to l’) for una – is used, followed by the hour. For midday and midnight, è is used, without the article: È mezzogiorno. It’s midday. È mezzanotte. It’s midnight. To emphasise an exact time on the hour, you can add in punto (‘on the dot’). Sono le undici in punto. It’s eleven o’clock precisely...Week 1: Talking about the time: 4 Expressing...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...community. Of course, you might have already used them as part of an online course for school, college, work or university. For instance, most Open University courses and modules use online learning forums where learners can share experiences and ideas, raise questions and work on course tasks. 2. How do you feel about using an online learning forum? If you haven’t yet...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...community charge Source: Glasgow LiveMy mother and some other activists had prepared for this eventuality by wearing incontinence pads and hiding cigarettes and matches about their person. They had no worries about being arrested but were not prepared to go without their cigarettes! What calmed me down that day was a card my mother had placed, unbeknown to me, in my...
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