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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...public administration, health, education, defence and capital investment, for example, in railways. This residue, which arguably can’t be allocated to households, amounts to 10% to 20% of the total UK carbon footprint. This means that consumption decisions by individuals and households are responsible for creating or triggering 80% to 90% of the UK’s carbon footprint...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...public interest. More often than not, repression of what is deemed private is much stronger than what is said to be of public significance, making this repression less contested as well. Similarly, hackers’ targeting of information and communication infrastructure is depoliticized, or delegitimized under criminal conspiracy acts. Instead you claim that contemporary...
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Article 15 mins
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...public sector staff or politicians...This course, Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations, will help you to reflect on and develop collaborative leadership practices that will make a difference. The course is aimed at people who work within voluntary organisations as paid staff or as volunteers or for people who work regularly with voluntary organisations,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...health and mental health treatment. The course starts by exploring formal definitions of panic and panic attack. These are then contrasted with personal accounts of the experience of panic. It also presents some of the key understandings of why panic attacks happen, and provides an overview of the main ways people can get help and help themselves. ...Panic attacks: what...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large chunk from Tanzania and Nigeria. Our YouTube channel has a whopping 264,000 subscribers – the most on any UK university YouTube account. We have a Facebook and Twitter account with over 22K...
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Article 5 mins
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large chunk from Tanzania and Nigeria. Our YouTube channel has a whopping 291,000 subscribers – the most on any UK university YouTube account. We have a Facebook and Twitter account with over 25K...
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Article 20 mins
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...health and wellbeing. Taking a critical eco-psycho-social perspective you will explore ideas from social theory, psychoanalysis, ecopsychology, eco-feminism and post-humanism to gain a deeper understanding of the climate and ecological crisis, its impact on our wellbeing and how to build psychological resilience...This free course introduces the emerging field of Climate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...public, if you comment on, or like a Page, all the information you share on that Page will be available to anyone on Facebook who looks at that Page. These types of Pages tend to be followed by students who want to stay connected to their institution, their halls of residence, their student union, society or their faculty at university. The value of Pages is that when you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs