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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...Smartphones and cognition: A review of research exploring the links between mobile technology habits and cognitive functioning. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 605. This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage....
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Article 10 mins
How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...Open University's Environment courses Shrinking footprints Climate change presents humanity with a series of enormous challenges. Unifying these is a single imperative: to avoid catastrophic climate change impacts by capping global temperature rises to 1.5℃. Achieving this is a monumental challenge, and requires every corporation, government and citizen to make swift,...
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Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...resources are allocated. So, in terms of Higher Education, this might be the overarching university strategy. Business-level: concerned with ‘business units’ and how they should compete in their particular markets – this could be a ‘faculty strategy’ or ‘research strategy’. Function-level: concerned with how components of an organisation deliver the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Choose your own philosophy adventure
History & The Arts

Choose your own philosophy adventure

...open the book... [Black and white illustration of a castle surrounded by trees with a tower in the centre. Dot like dashes create a sea around the island the castle is on top of.] Open the book Please note: This interactive feature will open in a pop-up window. To play in full-screen mode, hold down the Ctrl key and select the 'Open the book' link above. This will ......
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Activity 1 hr
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...Normal University), Dr Jane Gilbert (Carbon Clarity) and all those who helped contribute to the case studies. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...resources’ that structure human life. (Pugh, 2014, p. 75) Children differ, and what they find important also differs— they present a multiplicity of voices, rather than a singular viewpoint. (Norðdahl & Einarsdóttir, 2015, p. 153) So, thinking generally about the family as a context for children’s learning is made up with complex layers of relationships and...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Languages

Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...education. He was picked out during the Nazi regime as one of the “socially undesirable children” and entered into the Nazi euthanasia programme. He was confined to a psychiatric institution in Vienna where Nazi doctors conducted cruel experiments with the children. He managed to survive the atrocities but the horror did not end there for him. When he later recognised...
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Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?
Languages

Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?

...education with life skills, as the independent Senator Jacqui Lambie has argued in the Australian parliament. The millions of migrants and refugees who built post-war Australia learnt their English through immersion in communities and workplaces that afforded opportunities for participation and inclusion; as they used to say out at the Ford motor car factory in...
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