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From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator
Health, Sports & Psychology

From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator

...change in my personal life. I had to think creatively and consider how I could utilise my nursing skills and my love of teaching in a role that suited my new lifestyle. I know fairy godmothers only appear in Cinderella but once again the OU saved my life! At this point in my life, my boss Mags was my fairy godmother. Due my own journey, I can emphasise and have the time...
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Article 5 mins
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...changes in superficial physical characteristics (e.g. length of hair, clothes). Stage 2: Gender stability Children recognise that gender is stable over time: boys will grow up to be daddies, and girls will grow up to be mummies. However, the unchanging nature of gender – that it remains the same regardless of changes in superficial appearance or activity choice – is...
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Article 15 mins
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...change and a thoroughgoing transformation of Europe from the years of the Cold War and the World War that preceded it. This course focuses on the different understandings of Europe that underlie the debates and disputes over the development of Europe. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Geography...What is Europe?: Learning outcomes - After...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...changes in mood at school or at home during adolescence are often seen as a sign that a young person is simply ‘acting out’ their frustration at struggling academically or socially. Adolescence is a period of significant physical and emotional change, brain development in particular, so it is important to understand the underlying reasons for changes in mood and...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...change and social justice, it would be logical to assume that social workers would also have significant obligations to provide services to asylum seekers and refugees, who seek refuge from human rights abuses, disasters, wars and other forms of persecution in their homelands. Asylum seekers and refugees are often among the most vulnerable and the poorest sectors of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...change her image to be more ‘male’ and therefore at that time more public friendly. ‘Any other way’, Jackie’s first full-length album, was released in October 2017 and was a collection of her previously unreleased hits. It was nominated for ‘Best Historical Album’ at the 61st Grammy Awards. Gladys Bentley12 August 1907 – 18 January 1960 It seems I was born...
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Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...changed from around 2005/2006 as higher interest rates in the US triggered a sharp increase in defaults among customers – many of them with low incomes – who had borrowed funds to finance home purchases. This was the so-called ‘sub-prime’ debt crisis, where the term ‘sub-prime’ relates to the poor credit standing of those who had borrowed money. So the start...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...changing over time. This helps him to make decisions about which words are more or less appropriate for a particular brand at a particular point, and it also helps him to explain certain attitudes that might be conveyed with words or expressions. In the case of ‘manager’, for instance, he was able to explain why customers generally do not have high expectations of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs