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Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...communication and self-disclosure, friendship, love, conflict and violence, relationship dissolution, and loneliness...Making sense of ourselves: 2.1 Enduring love? - This activity probes some of the traditional understandings that underpin key psychological theories about personal relationships. It focuses on the findings of Enduring Love? – a research project...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...communicate effectively in German in everyday contexts! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXG001 Beginners German 1: fang an! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!...Week 1: Hallo!: Introduction - At the beginning of this...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...communities actually facing a mental health crisis, or is this a crisis that is being blown up in the media? To get started on this topic, listen to Audio 1 in which a parent talks about their experience of trying to understand what is happening in the life of their adolescent child. SPEAKER It was probably brewing, if you like, for quite some time, possibly even over...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...communications networks to form a huge, publicly accessible ‘network of networks’. Thus the internet carries electronic mail (email), hosts chat rooms and bulletin boards, enables the transfer of files, and is the physical basis for supporting the World Wide Web. The web is the collection of linked data stored on the internet which is accessed using a browser. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...community. But to develop into a member of society in the Australian bush had nothing in common with developing into a member of society in ancient Greece, and still less with what is needed today. Any education is, in its forms and methods, an outgrowth of the needs of the society in which it exists. (Dewey, 1934) [A photograph of the American educational reformer John...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
History & The Arts

The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

...communication sent in Boulogne by the female signaller about the end of hostilities, and the fact that it was met by – silence. The French population packed the streets, but although the church bells were ringing, and sirens and hooters were going off, what this signaller remembered most was the ‘sobbing of a woman’ (26-27). Part II of Ford’s novel, as we know,...
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Article 15 mins
Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
Money & Business

Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list

...communication can alter public acceptability of interventions to reduce Campylobacter. However, this study found that >50% of participants would never find irradiation or chemical wash acceptable. Even if a large awareness campaign was mounted it might not be cost effective or achieve the desired effect of changing views on the acceptability of these interventions. Read...
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Article 10 mins
What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...community life by creating durable social bonds that functioned like contracts. Over 20 months from 2013 to 2015, I interviewed more than 100 garbage collectors, scrap buyers and policymakers and worked alongside collectors on their garbage collection routes, at their homes where they sort and sell the scrap, and at recycling factories. At the site where I did the bulk of...
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Article 5 mins