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IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...Introduction - This course looks at the technologies used to acquire information about the world. A particular focus is the technology used by television businesses in gathering news reports. The course draws upon the expertise of two individuals who have worked in senior positions in the UK television industry. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...Introduction - What does excellent care and support for older people with learning disabilities look like? How do you know when you see it? How can it be replicated across different settings? And who needs to be involved in delivering it? This course has been developed from a research project that explored how to improve the care and support for older people with learning...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...managing the health and welfare of modern populations...While recognising the shadows cast by two world wars (one concluded and one imminent) over European society during the 1920s and 1930s, this free course, Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period, demonstrates how a number of specific features indicate that the interwar period was a distinctive and important...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Rugby: A game of risk and reward
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A game of risk and reward

...manage the risk”. MacLean and Hutchinson (2012) conducted an audit of U19 player admissions to spinal injury units in Great Britain and Ireland. They found that U19 rugby players sustained serious neck injuries requiring admission to spinal injury units with a low but persistent frequency, with the rate of admission in Scotland being “disproportionately high”. The...
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Article 10 mins
Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets

...management and help their own communities, the Gates Foundation wants to build things that negate the need for public sanitation systems as we know them. The Nano Membrane Toilet is also subject to the “appropriate technology” critique. Appropriate technology is an approach developed in the 70s that asked technologists, engineers, and, designers to consider the larger...
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Article 5 mins
Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?
Languages

Can cartoons help keep indigenous Mexican languages alive?

...managed to defeat the beast. The animation is narrated in Yaqui, a language of the Mexican state of Sonora. [A group of more than 30 Yaqui Indian prisoners being escorted away by Mexican soldiers, Mexico, ca.1910] Yaqui people being led away by Mexican soldiers in 1910. In the early years of the 20th century Yaqui lands were seized by the government, and the people sold...
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Video 5 mins
Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...manage the crossing arrive, though, are deeply inadequate. [A family sit on the edge of a boat on the beach, smiling - having arrived on the Greek island of Kos. ] Refugees from Iraq arrive on the Greek island of Kos The shipwrecks and deaths in 2015 led to a brief shift in public opinion around migration in the UK and across Europe. British newspapers which are routinely...
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Article 10 mins
Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Languages

Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...managed to survive the atrocities but the horror did not end there for him. When he later recognised one of his torturers, this psychiatrist had become famous in his profession and a forensic expert in high demand. The doctor took preventive measures and due to his spiteful “expert” testimony, Zawrel was sent to prison. He spent long years in prison and psychiatric...
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Article 10 mins