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Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...Think about how you might start a conversation with adult learners about their mental health. From the grid below, note the elements which you feel are important. Are there any which particularly resonate with you? Why do you think that is? Providing an interruption-free environment Employing gentle persistence Ensuring safe, non-triggering conversations Using positive...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
DemFest 2016
Society, Politics & Law

DemFest 2016

...think, get-together and talk with others with similar interests or projects. You won't just hear a party line, DemFest is non-partisan and independent.” It was initiated by non-governmental organisation/charity and encourages people to participate through a special event. DemFest 2016 is local, national and global in orientation and concerned with democracy, politics...
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Article 5 mins
Why worldviews?
History & The Arts

Why worldviews?

...thinking about and being in the world. One of the themes at the heart of The Open University’s Religion, Belief and Worldviews Hub is the growing currency of the term ‘Worldviews’. Worldviews includes a whole spectrum of religious and non-religious ideologies and convictions, and can include concepts like spirituality and Philosophy. In this video we consider what...
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Video 5 mins
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...system. Putting these pieces of the jigsaw together, current thinking is that stress, via the effects of glucocorticoid hormones, leads to a decline in hippocampal function (through some combination of decline in hippocampal neurogenesis and increase in hippocampal atrophy), and that hippocampal dysfunction is linked to some of the symptoms of depression. Given what you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...thinking about studying an Open qualification (Degree, and/or Masters) with The Open University. It provides useful background information to the qualifications and helps you navigate the different spaces that offer support and find where materials and resources are located. It will help you to plan your studies and future career as well as directing you to where you can...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...think of ‘us’ and who you imagine as ‘them.’ Consider your participation in these groups. Did you choose to be part of them, or were you included by default? Have you ever moved from one group to another? What factors define belonging in these groups? Discussion You might have come up with a wide range of different examples of groups here. This might have included...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...system, and she now sits in the House of Lords. [Described image] Figure 3: ‘I feel that our movement, the disability movement, is an emancipation agenda. I see it like apartheid. It’s not just ramps and access, it’s deeply rooted in attitudes.’ (Lady Jane Campbell, quoted in Birkett, 2009) Martin Luther King and Lady Jane Campbell both show how leadership is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...think of the ways in which this mind-body dualism may be overcome such that we might recognise the importance of bodies in our lived experience of the world. After watching the following video clips, which will provide an introduction to the phenomenological perspective, work through the rest of the course to look at how this comes to be applied to a substantive topic:...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs