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Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...work within the novel...This free course, Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, is designed to tell you something about Hardy's background, and to introduce you to the pleasures of reading a nineteenth-century novel. Why do we believe in fictional characters and care about what happens to them? You will discover some of the techniques that Hardy uses to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...Social Care. You might be particularly interested in the Open University course K240 Mental health and community...Challenging ideas in mental health: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the complexity and dilemmas of diverse perspectives in the field of mental health and distress understand the importance of service...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...work in other countries. Legislation and social changes make it easier for organisations to develop and train their staff to appreciate ethnic and national differences in values, style, attitudes and performance standards. Nevertheless, there are countervailing tendencies, internally and externally. Developing openness and trust, for example, can often seem easier in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...work together. That idea about change existed long before the Open University. But how was it transmitted? This banner, recently found in the village hall in Fringford, Oxfordshire, can be used to help us find out. This banner was made in the late nineteenth-century for a branch of a friendly society, a voluntary, mutual aid body. This one was called the Independent Order...
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Video 5 mins
How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?

...work or lives are notable matters. It’s fascinating and inspiring. And Wikipedia is a great place to make it easy. We’ve got a lot to do. There is more hole than picture, really, in both the history and the present of science when it comes to women and scientists of color for starters. That’s not going to change naturally. It needs activist energy. Gender bias on...
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Activity 5 mins
Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...Social Sciences, and I want to share my excitement with you over this 1920s Transport and General Workers Union banner. It’s a dockside branch banner and the Dockers have quite a history of protest from a mass strike of unskilled and skilled workers in the late 1880s (the struggle against casualization and for a daily living wage, the Dockers’s tanner). The leaders of...
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Video 5 mins
Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...worked in a range of jobs for less than £4 per week to save the £86 which paid my fare to join her in London in March 1955. I arrived by boat at a Liverpool dock and asked directions to Paddington Station where my mother was waiting. I did not recognise her. She recognised me and took me home to her attic room in Islington. The next morning, we had breakfast early and...
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Article 5 mins
Explore critical issues in health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Explore critical issues in health and wellbeing

...The second looks at lifestyles in relation to health. For instance, in high-income countries many lifestyles are physically inactive, and this can have a negative impact on a person's health. The two free courses are adapted from the Open University course K219 Critical issues in health and wellbeing. This course is part of the OU's BA (Hons) Health and social care....
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Article 5 mins