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Climate change and the importance of COP26
Nature & Environment

Climate change and the importance of COP26

...students who will be affected by climate change, let alone the millions of learners using OpenLearn. This climate change page brings together existing OpenLearn content that is directly relevant to climate change which you can study but will also feature a series of weekly articles on different aspects of climate change as seen from the perspective of different...
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Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...students to contrasting understandings of graffiti. It draws on a wide range of graffiti examples, including mystery zebras in Hackney, fish graffiti in Morecambe, 'tags' in a Milton Keynes underpass, a McDonald's advert and exhibits at a highly established art gallery, the Tate Modern. Students will consider different arguments for and against the perception of graffiti...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...become very influential in social work since its integration in the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families (DOH, 2000, 2001). The ecological perspective sees the world as a highly complex web of interacting systems which are mutually dependent (perhaps the food chain is the best-known example). When applied to social work, human society is...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?

...students. Colour Student Journal. P. 396-406 Valdez, P., & Mehrabian, A. (1994) Effects of Colour on Emotion, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 123, No. 4, p. 394-409 Wright, A. Colour Affects. Available at http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psychological-properties-of-colours. Accessed 29th July 2015. Zentner, M.R., (2001) Preferences for colours and colour-emotion...
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Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?
Languages

Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?

...students. I’m not the only one. Twitter has an enormous reach in many areas including politics, science and business, and companies and advertisers know this only too well. From celebrities / influencers being paid to feature products on their timeline to the millions paid for advertising and featured tweets, everyone is at it. Educational institutions also promote...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...students from Columbia University demonstrating the Indian Rope Trick.]The magician Joseph Dunninger with students from Columbia University demonstrating the Indian Rope Trick ... between public and private ... Having grown up on a political faultline, Colette Bryce is aware of borders, restriction and freedoms. This comes through subtly in her personal poems when she...
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Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world
History & The Arts

Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world

...students from a variety of backgrounds, who go to work in many different sectors. It may not be widely taught as a standalone subject in schools, but Art History has both a rich history and huge contemporary relevance. To give just one example, recent debates over statues representing figures such as Cecil Rhodes and Edward Colston speak directly to issues (such as the...
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Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
Society, Politics & Law

Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists

...students suspected of undefined extremism. For his part, French prime minister, Manuel Valls, in an unwelcome echo of the appalling failures of the Blair–Bush era, has called for a war on terrorism. David Cameron will soon fly to the US to discuss the Paris murders with Barack Obama, as well as plans for enhanced intelligence collaboration. Strange since, if the Snowden...
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