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Dealing with feedback when you are neurodivergent
Education & Development

Dealing with feedback when you are neurodivergent

...studying. Yet if you are neurodivergent, feedback can have a greater impact on your sense of self, making you question your value as a person. The good news is that some simple strategies can help make feedback feel more manageable. What is feedback? Feedback is defined by the Cambridge dictionary as: ‘Information or statements of opinion about something, such as a new...
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Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...Studies, argued that any measures to stop overuse and concoct new drugs must be “complemented by investments in measures to ensure universal access to effective antibiotic treatment of common infections.” “In many countries, poor people obtain these drugs in unregulated markets,” Bloom said. “They often take a partial course and the products may be sub-standard....
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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...study of conspiracy theories. Historians, philosophers, sociologists and political scientists often present conspiracy theories as being of an essentially psychological nature. [Detail from a mural at Denver Airport] A detail of a mural in Denver International Airport, subject of much conspiracy theorist interest. A plea for peace, or a plan for future martial law? Many...
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Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...skills needed for understanding and using the German language. Studying 3-4 hours a week, the course offers the perfect opportunity to continue the development of skills needed to communicate effectively in German in everyday contexts. After completing this course, you will be able to: understand how to use regular and irregular verbs in the present tense use the adverb...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...studied mineralogy at university. I just loved the combination of analytical work in the laboratory and being out in the field. [Julia, crouching in a cave cut into a grey rock, wearing a turquoise jacket and hat and grey trousers, carrying a hammer.] Julia at a field site in Iceland. This area was once mined for Iceland spar, a transparent variety of calcite (calcium...
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Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...skills. Learners can mix and match the short courses and study more than one course at a time. Once this course is complete you will be directed to OpenLearn’s hub for language content where you will be able to build on your newly found language skills. Now that you’re fully prepared, it’s time to start on Week 1...Introduction: Acknowledgements - This free course...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

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...skills, knowledge, social and emotional capital): Asset Mapping: Comparative approaches A working paper reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of asset mapping and similar approaches: Making sense of assets: Community asset mapping and related approaches for cultivating capacities Traces Project is a multimedia learning project, focusing untold history of arts and culture...
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Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work
History & The Arts

Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work

...skill. It took Charlotte to see they could, just possibly, make money from writing, and as readers we have to be grateful for that, but they were each touched with the bright fire of genius (though that’s a questionable word, I know), and that’s why the early image in Sally Wainwright’s drama of the four children with the tops of their heads aflame caught my...
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