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Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...Introduction - In this free course, Exploring equality and equity in education, you will explore your experiences and thoughts on equality and equity in education and be introduced to different understandings of these concepts. You will start to look at some of the influences on equality which are common across the world and individuals’ interpretations of inequality...
Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...managed. [The word bereavement spelled out in scrabble letters] While such policies can be hard for small organisations to design and implement, large organisations such as Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs, i.e. universities) have significant resources which can help them to better plan and make adjustments to best support their staff after a loss. However,...
10 things that ended in 2006 (when OpenLearn was born)
History & The Arts

10 things that ended in 2006 (when OpenLearn was born)

...manager [Sven-Göran Eriksson] 'Sven, Sven, Sven-Göran Eriksson' (sing it!) was the first foreign manager of the England national team. His 5-year reign spanned 67 matches with England winning 40 and losing 10. The Football Association announced that Eriksson would leave his role in 2006, a decision that was met with several protests and a "Save Our Sven" campaign from...
Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen

...managing her mental illness. Season one: the uncompromising Mathison The first season centred on the uncompromising Mathison. She is convinced “war hero” Nicholas Brody is an Al Qaeda agent based on evidence and intuitiveness – rather than delusions. Far from being portrayed as a social failure with few skills or without identifiable employment, she is a high-level...
Ageing Well Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing Well Collection

...management are crucial for improving quality of life. Since 2019, over 25,000 members of the public have engaged with the talks nationally, and the AWPTS portfolio of resources has engaged over 90,000 people globally; our regular feedback confirms that this intervention has increased knowledge of age-related processes, attitudes to health and wellbeing, confidence in...
Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future
Nature & Environment

Traditional Ecological Knowledges: Learning from the past to inform the future

...manage their environment. This article explores Traditional Ecological Knowledges and how we can live more sustainably...The diversity of biota (that is the animal and plant life of a particular region, habitat, or geological period) in our world as well as the diversity of those who live in it is mind-bogglingly fascinating. From the biodiverse tropical jungles of...
Badges come to OpenLearn
Get Started

Badges come to OpenLearn

...project of the year’. Currently, learners enrolled on any of the almost 800 short courses on OpenLearn can download an activity record to print or to share online what they have read. Digital badges issued with each BOC and accompanying Statement of Participation are a different marker of achievement: learners will have not only read full online courses but will have...
Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...project which aims to map every tree in the UK and make the data publicly-available, with the aim of being a one-stop-shop for urban tree data for use by the public, researchers, government and business. However, a dataset of the right information compiled using consistent methods allows us to estimate the benefits of urban trees thereby answering a number of critical...