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Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...Write your own definition of a 'team' (in 20 words or less). You probably described a team as a group of some kind. However, a team is more than just a group. As noted above, when you think of all the groups that you belong to, you will probably find that very few of them are really teams. Some of them will be family or friendship groups that are formed to meet a wide...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: burakkarademir; Getty Images Introduction images: first:...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...writing in Foreign Affairs, suggested that the knowledge that secrecy might be a thing of the past should lead to a remaking of state behaviour: Manning's and [Edward] Snowden's leaks mark the beginning of a new era in which the U.S. government can no longer count on keeping its secret behavior secret. Hundreds of thousands of Americans today have access to classified...
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Article 5 mins
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...writings I advocated, what to me was the only truth, that it was necessary to live in such a way as to derive the greatest comfort for oneself and one’s family. Thus I proceeded to live, but five years ago something very strange began to happen to me: I was overcome by minutes at first of perplexity and then of an arrest of life, as though I did not know how to live or...
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Article 15 mins
The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...writing about, what was in this book and who was it addressed to? Margaret Willes: Wel he was writing to his country cousins, about how they should run their farm, how they should farm, how they should till their fields - but also how they should look after their gardens. And husbandry and gardening are absolutely intertwined at this period. Laurie Taylor: And you say in...
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Article 15 mins
Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...writing or painting about issues of race and ethnicity, and not just in Black History Month or South Asian Heritage Month. Critics of multiculturalism have called it the 3 Ss: saris, steel drums and samosas. It’s argued that it gives us a false idea of culture as simply about colourful artefacts. It doesn’t engage in a critique of the underlying discriminatory...
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Article 10 mins
Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background

...write out, or see in the score or analytical graph, with what you can hear – a difficult job! So make every effort to work through these materials in the manner and order suggested. Please note that you should have studied OpenLearn courses AA314_1 Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground and AA314_2 Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground before...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...Creative good feelings about unhealthy food). This creates the impression that it is quite the norm for children to eat such foods frequently – when in fact the opposite is what’s recommended. Furthermore, these ads create powerful emotional associations with such foods, with imagery and stories that evoke delicious tastes and aromas, fun, magic, imagination, humour...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs