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World-Changing Women: Charlotte Maxeke
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Charlotte Maxeke

...involved in multiracial movements and was elected president of the Women’s Missionary Society. In 1928, after attending a conference in the USA she set up an employment agency for Africans in Johannesburg and was the first black woman to become a parole officer for juvenile delinquents. She died in Johannesburg in 1939. Learn more about African history and human rights...
English: Personal Experiences
Education & Development

English: Personal Experiences

...become a hindrance. How often do you change they way you speak to adapt to different environments or accommodate other peoples assumptions? Can we get an insight into who people are by how the use grammar and pronounce words? In a series of conversations we’re given access to the varying perspectives on the English language from a range of personal experiences. This...
Key Ideas in Therapy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Key Ideas in Therapy

...becoming more able to be present to themselves and sit with their experiences and difficult emotions. These things are emphasised across all therapeutic approaches, but mindfulness in particularly has some tools for developing the capacity to be present. This animation was developed by Dr Meg-John Barker, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University, and Damn Fine...
Under Pressure again: Can the England team bring football home?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Under Pressure again: Can the England team bring football home?

...events generate. Hodgson’s 2016 team is a stronger, more resilient and more experienced squad that the one that lost out in 2014 and one can surmise that such a significant defeat will have made them even more determined to lay to rest the ghosts of the last 50 years. This article was originally published on the OU Sport & Fitness Team blog. Explore our Euro 2016 hub...
What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?
History & The Arts

What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?

...their parents would call a little party, their son had come home from the War, bring in the neighbours from ten miles around, get in there and get infected and they’d die. That was the biggest outbreak.” This article was taken from an interview Death on the eve of the Armistice, from the episode The Last Day of World War One in the BBC/OU co-production 'Timewatch'....
Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...OU's Dr Mimi Tatlow-Golden discusses what psychology can tell us about teens’ susceptibility to food ads in digital media. ...[An illustration of an ipad with sweets and doughnuts on and a child'd hand pulling a sweet out of the screen. ] Smartphones and social media in the lives of young people are frequently discussed. One topic that gets less of an airing is teens’...
Archwiliwch OpenLearn gan y Brifysgol Agored
Miscellaneous

Archwiliwch OpenLearn gan y Brifysgol Agored

...OU ysbrydoledig a chael eich cyffroi gan yr hyn sy’n bosib wrth i chi gymryd y cam nesaf wedi ysgol neu goleg...Chwyddwydr - ein dewisiadau gorau Meddwl am eich camau nesaf? Archwiliwch bum pwnc poblogaidd a chymerwch olwg ar ein tri chwrs blasu poblogaidd ar gyfer bob un ar OpenLearn, gan y Brifysgol Agored. Yn dilyn hynny, beth am blymio’n ddyfnach i bob maes pwnc...
Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...OU, the University of Exeter and Arvon and a rare opportunity for deep, sustained CPD in the teaching of writing. The project, which involves teacher residentials at Lumb Bank (Ted Hughes’ old home) and CPD days, focuses both on writing standards and children’s motivation and engagement as creative and effective writers. Whilst the recruitment process has been hard...