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Investigating psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating psychology

...work through. One of the keys to understanding psychology is to familiarise yourself with its history and core questions. For this reason, The Open University has specifically developed an interactive resource designed to allow you to explore psychology in the way that best suits you. You can follow links to people, contexts, perspectives and methods to discover...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...work of other historians...Introduction: Moving around the course - In the ‘Summary’ at the end of each session, you will find a link to the next session. If at any time you want to return to the start of the course, click on ‘Full course description’. From here you can navigate to any part of the course. It’s also good practice, if you access a link from within...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...work with them/support them? What might an alternative, critical framework for understanding young people's wellbeing look like? How is young people's wellbeing shaped by diversity and inequality? What are the implications of a critical approach for promoting young people's wellbeing? You will begin by looking at two newspaper stories that are fairly typical of recent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Shakespeare: For All Time?
History & The Arts

Shakespeare: For All Time?

...works to remain in our public consciousness even 400 years after Shakespeare’s death. They retain their ability to shock and provoke us. Writing in 1623, Shakespeare’s playwright colleague Ben Jonson described him as “not of an age but for all time,” and the subsequent performance histories of his plays seem to confirm Jonson’s prediction. In 2016, The Open...
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Video 10 mins
60 second adventures in economics: The Invisible Hand
Society, Politics & Law

60 second adventures in economics: The Invisible Hand

...Hayek, argued that this ʻhands offʼ approach actually works better than any kind of central plan. But the problem is, economies can take a long time to reach their ʻequilibriumʼ, and may even stall along the way. And in the meantime people can get a little frustrated, which is why governments usually end up taking things into their own more visible hands instead....
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Video 5 mins
Mo Vernon On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Vernon On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...work across a range of large and small organisations in the Public and Private sectors. She has used creative management and systems thinking ideas and approaches in a range of organisations to improve and develop their performance. She currently teaches on the OU STiP modules. Mo enjoys walking (her three dogs), is keen gardener (okay she potters in the garden ….. okay...
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Audio 15 mins
Secret or sharing? Play our Privacy Game
Digital & Computing

Secret or sharing? Play our Privacy Game

...work online. Players make decisions about which information they reveal, who they reveal it to and why. For example, you may decide to trade some information for gifts when shopping on a website; or you may decide to keep other information secret when posting on a social networking site. There are two ways to play... [Challenge your friends on Facebook] [One player game...
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Activity 5 mins
Participant voices & interactions Beyond The Babble
Society, Politics & Law

Participant voices & interactions Beyond The Babble

...work and the staging of it: You may see in the images and the video above that the recordings from the audio booth were projected across several windows across the gallery and on twitter in the form of sound cards: Who am I? @WhoAreWe_2017 @giotita @tateexchange #identity #beyondbabblehttps://t.co/4jSreSEPDS pic.twitter.com/RmCvjNourM — cultivaters (@SOCIALBRDCSTS)...
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Video 5 mins