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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...mental flexibility that could be learned. In the 1970s, the role of relevant experience was more fully appreciated by researchers and in the 1980s attention was drawn to the key role of intrinsic motivation (doing things because you want to). These theories focused on creativity at the level of the individual; however, more recently managers and researchers have turned...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...wellbeing of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything to study....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...Health Report on Human Cloning (1998) This report is the Government response to the report by the Human Genetics Advisory Commission and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority on cloning issues in reproduction, science and medicine Department of Health. Cloning for medicine I. Wilmut ( Scientific American, 279, pp 58-63, 1998) A personal account of the cloning...
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Article 30 mins
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...Health Service (NHS) or its equivalent, only after patients have undergone genetic counselling. This is defined as the provision of information and advice about inherited disorders, and includes helping people to: Understand medical facts; Appreciate the way in which inheritance contributes to the disease in question; Understand the options for dealing with the disorder;...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...mental health’ (Mårtensson and Andersson, 2015, p. 62) or ‘the therapeutic use of literature’ (Howie, 1983, p. 287). The effect of reading books is argued to impact not just the mind but also the body. Bavishi, Slade and Levy (2016) carried out a longitudinal study of individuals aged over 50 years old, and found that people who read books actually lived slightly...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...health, it triggered cancers. Marie Curie didn’t live to see the amazing journey the radioactive elements would take us on. Because whilst these are naturally occurring elements, they would take man one step closer to a seemingly impossible dream - to create entirely new elements. Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel who noticed that the radiation...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...mental or psychological activity. (This need not imply that reasoning is an activity performed by an incorporeal mental entity. Perhaps mental activities are identical with processes that occur in the brain.) Our emotions, in contrast, are associated with changes that occur elsewhere in our bodies: sweating, changes in heart rate, decreased salivation and so on. In...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Social care in the community
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care in the community

...health and social care. All societies face the challenge of supporting people who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to function without assistance or supervision. It will focus on one important area of social care – home care for older people. Core Questions How do people access social care services? What do home carers do? This OpenLearn course is an adapted...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs