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Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...student loans. Do you anticipate contributing to major expenses as your children grow up – such as helping them onto the housing ladder or paying for their weddings? Are you anticipating an inheritance? Do you have family members who might need more care in the future which could need funding? Activity 1: Planning ahead Timing: Allow 10 minutes for this. How many of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...becomes more readily available, then more species are able to grow. However, once resources are readily available, then the more competitive species within a community are able to dominate it and exclude less vigorous species. In most ecosystems it is the availability of mineral nutrients (especially nitrogen and phosphorus) that limits productivity. In eutrophic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...become unwell, learning more about the different types of therapy that are available. [Graphic of training shoes surrounded by sports equipment, an iPhone monitoring heartbeat and an apple on a green background. ] What is wellbeing? Mental health and wellbeing are terms that are commonly used in everyday language. However, research shows that wellbeing can mean different...
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Article 10 mins
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...student: I find Skype really difficult as I find the conversation cues difficult to read because there is no eye contact – in fact, I would far rather use face-to-face or phone...Session 1: What are the purposes of communication?: 8 This session’s quiz - Check what you’ve learned this session by taking the end-of-session quiz. Session 1 practice quiz Open the quiz...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...become familiar with the different theoretical tools used in research, which will enable you to begin to interrogate research literature and the research process itself. ...In this free course, Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth, you will build on your understanding of how to evaluate research by thinking about a fundamental part of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...become dominant distinguish how labelling something can create expectations about behaviour and actions give examples of inequalities that result from particular social constructions...Social problems: Who makes them?: 1.1 What is ‘social’ about a social problem? - In the late twentieth century a list of current social problems in the UK might include poverty,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
War Memorials
History & The Arts

War Memorials

...OU’s free online learning space. Our new online course, Heritage, whose heritage? (A180), gives a more fulsome introduction. The two total wars of the twentieth century are the subject of the course Total war and social change: Europe 1914-55 (AA312). We also offer an appealing starter course for budding family historians, which covers some of these questions: Start...
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Article 10 mins