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The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care

...University's Nursing and Healthcare courses and qualifications [British nurse taking older man's blood pressure in nurse's office] Forging relationships We all can probably recount our personal experiences of receiving some form of nursing care. This might have been as a patient in hospital, in a community or doctor’s clinic or in some other kind of health service...
How do historians know about the past?
History & The Arts

How do historians know about the past?

...university level, the free course 'Taking your first steps in Higher Education' or the introductory module 'Arts and languages access module' can help you to decide which path to take and prepare you for study. You can study history at The Open University through BAs in History, Humanities, or the Open BA, all of which are best begun via the module ‘The Arts Past and...
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...University of Technology in the Netherlands. The workshop brought together academics and designers from various disciplines to explore how ‘thinking through making’ might allow us to investigate potential future ways of life that are more responsive to contemporary social and environmental challenges. [Empathy tree memory box] Empathy Tree: a memory box (left) and...
Sgwrs Agored - Wales: Music Nation
History & The Arts

Sgwrs Agored - Wales: Music Nation

...University Press Golygwyd gan Trevor Herbert, Martin V. Clarke a Helen Barlow O feirdd canoloesol cynnar i fandiau’r cyfnod ‘Cymru Cŵl’, mae’r llyfr hwn yn edrych ar arferion a thraddodiadau cerddorol Cymru, y grymoedd sydd wedi’u dylanwadu a’u cyfeirio, a’r ffyrdd y mae’r syniad o Gymru fel ‘cenedl gerddoriaeth’ wedi cael ei ffurfio a’i ymgorffori...
Inside the mind of Trump's true believers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Inside the mind of Trump's true believers

...University this spring, he told the graduates that “America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers.” Trump argued that, in America, “we don’t worship government; we worship God.” I suspect the president was unaware that the term “true believer” was made famous more than 65 years ago in Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book,...
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...University is working in collaboration with the CPD Standards Office in a national study to understand more about individual professionals' experiences, perceptions and practice for adult skill development. Find out more here: cpdstandards.com/research. By participating in this high profile research, you will be contributing to scientific knowledge about adult skill...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...guides’) in Constantinople. From the eleventh century onwards, all sources invariably identify the Hodegetria icon found in the monastery with the acheiropoietos icon created by Saint Luke mentioned in Section 2.2. The icon was destroyed in 1453 when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans (Angelidi and Papamastorakis, 2000, p. 378, p. 385; Woods, 2013, p. 136). [Described...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course. We welcome your feedback and suggestions to improve the experience for other learners. This course is also available to study on FutureLearn 326, where you have the opportunity to purchase a FutureLearn certificate on completion....Week 1: What is...