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A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents
Education & Development

A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents

...becoming an increasingly popular choice for parents who are seeking a more suitable approach for their child’s education than is provided by a state-funded or independent school. While many parents opt to home educate as soon as their child reaches compulsory school age, others are deregistering their children from school due to dissatisfaction with their children’s...
How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does trauma influence identity and engagement with extremism?

...becomes an extremist and there is no one set ‘profile’ for an extremist. [Dominos falling over.] What does this have to do with trauma and identity? Given that there are many factors implicated in engagement with extremism and that many people could potentially share these factors and experiences, the question that fascinates researchers is not why do people become...
Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...becomes less risky to invest in. These positive (self-amplifying) feedbacks, neglected in equilibrium models, can lead to rapid rates of uptake which accelerate a technological transition even in the absence of policy. As an illustration of this rapid change, the costs of generating solar and wind energy are already (or will soon be) as low as the cheapest fossil fuels....
Why do we keep running?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do we keep running?

...becoming the most popular form of exercise. Running fits as snuggly into modern life as an eager foot into a plush pair of new trainers. It can be done alone and in almost any environment. As a solitary activity, there is no need to work around other people’s schedules. There are no courts, pitches, nets, bats, rackets or hoops necessary. You can just put on your shoes...
Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...become famous through video blogging, or vlogging. Their fans are almost all young. Many of these personalities are teenagers; they often broadcast from their homes, using a webcam, and can gather millions of fans. Their videos cover all kinds of topics - make-up tutorials, video games, anti-bullying, social justice. For instance, 16-year-old Brendan Jordan, who became...
I-SPY: Internet infidelity and its impact on couple relationships
Health, Sports & Psychology

I-SPY: Internet infidelity and its impact on couple relationships

...OU’s School of Psychology shows that relationship boundaries can be blurred online. This means that people in a relationship may be uncertain what online behaviours count as cheating. Their partners also may see things differently than they do. In addition to a lack of certainty about what online infidelity is, this and other research also suggests that it may be easier...
Open Education Week 2017
Education & Development

Open Education Week 2017

...OU's commitment to free learning. We have 900 free courses on OpenLearn, as well as a great deal more. We have collections of Skills for work courses aimed at those who need to enhance their work skills but can't commit to full-time study, and courses focusing on Skills for study, which help to refresh key study skills which might not have been used for a while. We're...
Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...OU students If you are currently studying with the OU as a fee-paying student, you have free access to Microsoft Office 365. This includes the spreadsheet software Excel. For this you need to go to the OU Computing Guide and scroll down to ‘Microsoft Office 365’. Click on the link. If you have not done so, then you should follow the instructions to sign up to get...