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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...World’. This gives depth to the historical inequalities that resonate to the power dynamics and legacies of contemporary inequalities experienced in Western society. Equiano’s narrative also shines a lens on the power of African slaves whose knowledge, experience, intellect, and skills, which were significant to the successful economic wealth of Britain and her...
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FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT

...World Health Organization (2025) recommends CBT as part of a holistic, trauma‑informed plan to support FGM survivors with trauma, post‑traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. CBT helps survivors understand how their thoughts, emotions, and physical reactions are connected to the trauma of their FGM and its ongoing consequences. It focuses on the distress a...
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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...world...Waste management and environmentalism in China: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify some of the environmental impacts of economic growth understand some concepts to more sustainably manage waste and resources identify some of the emerging social responses to China’s environmental problems assess your own waste...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...world is and how the child should be readied for living in it.’ (Bruner, 2000, p. xi) This quote from the renowned psychologist Jerome Bruner is helpful for thinking about the connection between culture and childhood, as it highlights that child-rearing is not the same everywhere. What children experience in their families, the learning that they participate in, will be...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...world, but also as a means to radically improving health and educational outcomes, addressing long-standing challenges in medicine, science and engineering, and protecting political freedoms and promoting economic stability. On the other hand, there are as many – if not more – voices warning that these new technologies are already severely and negatively impacting...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...world - transportation fuel. So that's just in one country. So when we look at how much is possible worldwide, it certainly seems to us like quite a large amount. Around the world there is a billion acres that's been abandoned to agriculture and this is all land that at one time did grow crops. I And I guess that there is always an argument that some of the land that is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...world of business...[Filiming The Bottom Line] We look back over the past decade with The Bottom Line as the show celebrates its 10 year anniversary and considers how, or if, things have changed in the world of business. Best bits Some of our highlights from the past ten years have been our special recordings with Evan Davis exclusively for OpenLearn. Still some our most...
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Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...world we live in and surrounds us. We can read newspapers, magazines, books, learning new languages, take drawing classes, computer classes, sewing and other handcraft classes, learning to play musical instruments (Piano is highly recommended as a brain stimulation as using both hands at different times really challenges our brain). • The best way to do it? engaging...
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