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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...
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...
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...
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...public address at the beginning of August 1914: Should all our attempts [for peace] be in vain, should the sword be forced into our hand, we shall go into the field of battle with a clear conscience and the knowledge that we did not desire this war. (Cited in Jarausch, 1973, p. 177) And the Kaiser declared in a speech to the nation that Germany ‘was attacked in the...
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What does it take to mentor young offenders?
Education & Development

What does it take to mentor young offenders?

...public house, involvement in video recording, and event management. Overall, there was strong evidence of success in each of these three components. This was seen as a result of the reflective approach adopted; defining the rationale behind each activity, developing clarity around what works and what doesn’t, and ensuring that these are appropriate to age and skills of...
Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’
Society, Politics & Law

Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’

...publications, including autobiographies and biographies of some of its key protagonists, historical accounts, academic studies, novels, poetry, plays and film output. There are in addition countless online resources that explore the events and consider why it was such a volatile period, and why this came to characterise the Clydeside region, and in particular why was it...
Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?
Society, Politics & Law

Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?

...public consciousness in 2016, around the time of the US presidential election. It then remained popular – becoming one of the defining terms of the era – throughout the Trump presidency. This popularity wasn’t limited solely to US politics however. The term was soon operating as a global emblem for a worldwide phenomenon. The intersection of social media, political...
The legacy of Empire: The Bengal Famine
History & The Arts

The legacy of Empire: The Bengal Famine

...public. One of the motivations of The Things We Forgot To Remember is as an answer to the question "Why study history?" There are a lot of answers to this, but one important reason is that people are already talking about history, and sometimes, they have got it seriously wrong. One example of this is the widespread ignorance of the Bengal famine. For me, the 'killer...