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Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...studies show that those left behind can find it difficult. They display an increase in alcohol consumption, smoking and workplace injury, and other studies show an effect on the mental health, with reports of depression, poor morale and reduction in productivity. In a study by Noer (1993), reactions to workforce reduction identified several key behaviours experienced by...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...studying family life. We will begin with a summary of how work in the home has changed over the last fifty years or so, and look at the situation now, at the start of the twenty first century. You will also be given the opportunity to explore how different families may have different ideas about how work should be divided up. The course concludes with an investigation...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)

...skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. After completing this course you will be able to: understand practical problems, some of which are non-routine identify the maths skills you need to tackle a problem use maths in an organised way to find the solution you’re looking for use appropriate checking procedures at each...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Partnerships: working across boundaries
Money & Business

Partnerships: working across boundaries

...study features Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), and examines how this large global humanitarian relief organisation harnesses a variety of relationships to help people in extreme emergency situations. This material forms part of The Open University course B822 Creativity, innovation and change... Working across boundaries An introduction to this...
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Audio 38 mins
Mission to Titan
Science, Maths & Technology

Mission to Titan

...studied in the world’s leading scientific journals for years to come... Mission to Titan An brief introduction to this album. The Cassini-Huygens Probe Adam Hart-Davies introduces one of the most ambitious space exploration missions ever launched. Titan: first glimpse OU professor John Zarnecki shows the first ever panoramic images of Titan to Adam Hart-Davis. Titan:...
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Audio 22 mins
Heritage, whose heritage?
History & The Arts

Heritage, whose heritage?

...heritage mean? A professor of cultural studies discusses how concepts of heritage have changed. Perceptions of heritage Comparisons between British and Afro-caribbean values and concepts of heritage. Save Britain's Heritage How architectural heritage is fundamental to a sense of nationhood and identity and why it's vital to preserve it, according to campaign group Save....
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Audio 1 hr 7 mins
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...studies during the 1970s. By systematically depriving depressed people of sleep, he confirmed that spending a single night awake could jolt them out of depression. Benedetti became interested in this idea as a young psychiatrist in the early 1990s. Prozac had been launched just a few years earlier, hailing a revolution in the treatment of depression. But such drugs were...
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Article 15 mins
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...study it. The skill of listening to a piece and writing it down in musical notation takes a lot of practice – even then it’s often necessary to listen to a piece many times in order to notate it accurately. Often it’s not possible to hear exactly what each instrument is doing in large ensemble pieces, and educated guesses are needed to complete the score. You are...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs