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The Quilt of Excellence: how to support older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Quilt of Excellence: how to support older people with learning disabilities and their families

...Free course)] Transcript You can see from the Quilt of Excellence animation that really good support for people with learning disabilities and their carers depends on supporting people to live well as they get older (e.g. having a good home and doing the things they really enjoy), supporting people to age well (e.g. helping them to cope with the physical, mental and...
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Video 10 mins
Investigating Psychology Interactive
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating Psychology Interactive

...course Understanding autism. Note 2: the dates included in this interactive are relevant to a key moment in the individual's career and not necessarily their date of birth. Instructions View interactive in FULL screen. For best results, use a modern web browser. Try a free alternative browser like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. What are we missing? It is our hope that...
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Activity 15 mins
The Jewels of Heuro
Digital & Computing

The Jewels of Heuro

...courses and qualifications The challenge Deep in the heart of the South American rainforest, in the lost Temple of Algoritmo, lie the fabled Jewels of Heuro. Protecting them are zombies who have guarded the secrets of the jewels through the centuries. As a treasure hunter, your aim is to collect all jewels before the zombies reach you. Are you ready? Congratulations to...
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Activity 5 mins
A parasocial Valentine's letter
History & The Arts

A parasocial Valentine's letter

...free, open access courses ‘What happens to you when you read?’ and ‘Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains’. Catherine Earnshaw Wuthering Heights Haworth Moor West Yorkshire BD22 9QS My dearest Cathy, I write, as usual, as I sit by the fireside, your book open in front of me. As I read the pages that make you come alive, I can...
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Article 5 mins
Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!
History & The Arts

Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!

...language are too weak to describe the feelings of an Englishman, at the shameful flight of our navy before the fleet combined against it by the House of Bourbon! Such a combination would not have been suffered to take place, or would have been instantly defeated, in times past which we have known. No imputation is laid on the brave officers in command who fled. Therefore...
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Article 5 mins
What is Applied Linguistics?
Languages

What is Applied Linguistics?

...language, maybe? If you're not sure about what Applied Linguistics is, start here...Transcript Want to know more? If you're curious - and feel this could be the perfect subject for you, discover how to study Applied Linguistics as a student with The Open University This video was produced at The Open University with the help of: Zsófia Demjén, Vicky Eves, David Hann,...
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Video 5 mins
Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'
Education & Development

Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'

...course to residents in the Calais Jungle, a camp for migrants and refugees outside the French city. Life Stories in the Jungle has been running since November 2015. I travel with a team of colleagues and students from the University of East London to Calais on a regular basis to meet and recruit students in the camp, read relevant literature together, including writings...
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Article 5 mins
How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Society, Politics & Law

How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?

...courses. [A photograph of a lie detector.] In a criminal trial, one thing that jurors often have to do is listen to competing accounts of events given by witnesses and try and work out which witness is telling the truth. These judgments are called credibility judgments. They often arise in trials for sexual offences, where the defendant and the complainant agree that...
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Article 5 mins