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A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...become an organ donor and haven’t recorded an opt out decision. They remain at the centre of the decision-making process about organ donation and are asked to confirm consent for each specific organ and tissue donation. The sharing of donor families’ lived experience To share what it is like to go through this process, we made a film about organ donation with two...
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Video 15 mins
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...become the most valuable asset on Earth while people are increasingly going without food and shelter. How can we design for people to have a home, while also regenerating the living systems on which we depend?...Like other wealthy countries, the UK now has swelling numbers of people whose needs for the basics – food and shelter – are not being met. The proportion of...
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Article 5 mins
Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...becoming a nightmare: Fanny Imlay committed suicide; Shelley’s wife drowned herself in the Serpentine; Mary and Shelley married and had a third baby, another Clara, in 1817, but she died the following year. Their grief was compounded when their precious William died of malaria in 1819. In his jotting book Percy wrote: My dearest M. wherefore hast thou gone And left me...
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Article 10 mins
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...OU student you are likely to have come across computer simulations, webinars and certainly online discussion forums (synchronous and asynchronous). It used to be assumed that technology-based training would be cheaper than face-to-face methods. However, both empirical and anecdotal evidence suggest that any savings associated with reduced travel costs and facilitator time...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...ou même encore chaude, et c’est pour cette raison que les Français vont à la boulangerie de leur quartier au moins une fois par jour. La baguette est toujours le type de pain le plus répandu, mais il en existe beaucoup d’autres. Il y a de nombreuses sortes de pains blancs. On les distingue grâce à leur taille, de la ficelle à la flûte, et grâce à leur forme,...
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Activity 10 mins
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...students). It is the duty of every employee while at work to take reasonable care of himself (herself) and of other persons who may be affected by his (her) acts or omissions at work. The employees must cooperate with the employer with regard to health and safety procedures. This covers all types of employment within the United Kingdom. The Health and Safety at Work Act...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...becoming in that setting and, as Jessica Oddy acknowledges, for us ‘to radically rethink ‘expert’ roles’ (Oddy, 2021). This does not exclusively apply to outsider researchers but also to those who might consider themselves already known or with pre-existing links to a research setting. This has been illustrated by Hanna Nikkanen (2019) reflecting on feeling like a...
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Article 30 mins
Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...OU registered students. You can however access the Collins dictionary. Paso A Watch Video 2 and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Dictionaries are very useful tools for language learners. In this short screencast you will be acquainted with some of the information you can find in a dictionary. There are 2 main types of dictionaries – monolingual...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs