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Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...change. Where, I wonder, is a book about Your Death? [An elderly woman with a cup sitting outdoors on a terrace on a sunny day in autumn.] Practical preparations Preparing for a home death is like preparing for a home birth but in reverse. The caring journey may begin sometime before death. Yet some principles are the same. You need to think about the best room to care...
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Article 5 mins
The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...changed with the times. Lecturers are now offered online, of course, together with text- and video-based class discussions. The OU became an enthusiastic participant in the OpenCourseWare movement, providing free online materials for many classes, as well as free courses offered through iTunesU, which have been downloaded millions of times. Almost all study materials are...
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Article 15 mins
Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...changes in the heart function found in CLN3 disease, or juvenile dementia. ...CLN3 disease CLN3 disease (also known as Batten Disease) is frequently referred to as a juvenile dementia. This is due to the devastating series of neurological symptoms caused by this disease, which begins to show symptoms in childhood and progresses through the teenage years into early...
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Article 10 mins
Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...change things. Security arrangements at bases will change, and there will be changes to the routine that soldiers have allowed to develop as the peace has been built and as they have relaxed into those changing circumstances. But juggling resources - reviewing operations - is part and parcel of what goes on here, part of the security task and job. "That's what we do all...
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Article 5 mins
Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...changing ideas about children have led many social scientists to claim that childhood is a ‘social construction’. They use this term to mean that understandings of childhood are not the same everywhere and that while all societies acknowledge that children are different from adults, how they are different and what expectations are placed on them, change according to...
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Article 10 mins
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...changes in circumstances. Payments can reach £5,000 to £6,000 but many have been forced to pay back some or all of their tax credits. Backbench MPs, who wrote more than 5,000 tax credit complaint letters in the first five months of this year, say many families persuaded to leave benefits and return to work by promises of tax credits take on extra commitments, including...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...change and improvement. The course considers some key issues and concepts in educational leadership and, among others, considers the question of what might constitute good practice in educational leadership and how the capacity to lead might be understood and developed. The importance of planning and evaluating professional learning development as part of this process is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...change as planned – because of failed IT systems. Many more examples, from the private, public and voluntary sectors, may come to your mind. But what exactly do we mean by success or failure in an IT system? This course mostly focuses on success, and helps you understand what we mean by a successful IT system. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs