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The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...become, the more worn out our bodies and brains get and sleep does not really get better as we grow older. With increasing age, our metabolism slows down, making food processing last longer and become a more energy consuming process. Food processing isn’t the only thing affected by ageing though. The way our bodies process medication slows down remarkably too with...
Witches in popular culture
History & The Arts

Witches in popular culture

...becoming a witch? Joining the witches is Tomasin’s last, desperate resort and it places her forever on the outside of a patriarchal social system in need of reform by and for its female members. More than this, Tomasin becomes one of the gruesome hags who have murdered her baby brother. In this respect, The Witch echoes old misogynist fairy tales, which often feature...
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...students attending selective schools can benefit from the experience, average performance across all students in areas served by such schools is not enhanced. The chancellor also announced a long overdue and welcome tidying up of vocational and technical qualifications, replacing more than 13,000 qualifications by some 15 new T levels. Here the devil will be in the detail...
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...OU offers...Psychology around the world: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe how cultural and societal factors shape some core psychological processes, namely how people think, remember and perceive the world describe some different cultural approaches to wellbeing understand how early life experiences impact infant development,...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...OU academics. While you are doing so you may wish to take some notes about why the use of language is important in mental health and what its use might suggest to those who have mental ill-health and how it is perceived and treated. Reading A The impact of language on mental health perspectives One aspect of the debate that surrounds mental health is how to refer to...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...becomes positively charged and the other becomes negatively charged. This causes the electrons, which are free to move, to travel through the wire towards the positive terminal of the battery, where they are removed. At the same time the negative terminal supplies more electrons to the wire. Within the battery there is a net flow of negative charge from the positive...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
OpenLearn Champions Hub | Hafan Hyrwyddwyr OpenLearn old
Education & Development

OpenLearn Champions Hub | Hafan Hyrwyddwyr OpenLearn old

...OU champions workbook] Download the guide English In recognition of the 3rd anniversary of our Champions Programme, we’ve reached out to our Champions and learners to create a video to celebrate their achievements. Well done and congratulations to everyone who has worked on the programme so far. Cymraeg I gydnabod trydydd pen-blwydd ein Rhaglen Hyrwyddwyr, rydym wedi...
Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...OU team’s research has an explicit focus on how ethnicity, gender and social class intersect in producing educational disadvantage. In examining teachers’ perceptions and practices as well as children’s own experiences of reading pedagogy, the team hope to offer more nuanced understandings of disengagement and suggest possible ways forward with long term goals in...