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School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...thinking, together with profound changes in society generally, will affect every institution both in terms of pedagogy and the physical environment, particularly technology and levels of security employed. This free course, School business manager: Developing the role, will look at how you, an existing or aspiring business manager, can work effectively to support school...
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...thinking about their worries and so can relax. Improved energy levels (and reduced fatigue) – helping to improve symptoms linked to depression. Improved happiness. Improved sleep. Reduced loneliness if exercising with others. Improved body image and self-perception. You might have reflected that, through these benefits, physical activity and exercise could offer carers...
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...think of the Gothic you might think of vampires, ruined castles, graveyards, spectres and haunted heroines. You probably do not automatically think of Ireland, but in fact, the Gothic—a cultural form that includes novels, films, art and even computer games—owes a great deal to Irish writers for more than 250 years ago. This course will help you discover why Ireland...
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...think about ourselves in relation to that world. Insofar as novels typically have a specific location in time and place, they are characteristically involved in the major upheavals of their societies, directly or indirectly: we are viewing the novel as a genre capable of registering in satisfyingly complex ways what we think we know about how the world we live in has come...
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...think if I’d been… I don’t know, I was lucky to grow up in the countryside in the thirties and to see… natural life at close quarters. My studies in animal behaviour Back in the 1950s I was working here in Oxford with Niko Tinbergen as a comparative ethologist. I was working on animal behaviour, in particular behaviour of a small fish called the ten-spined...
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...think I may have damaged his career very slightly by suggesting he would have also made an excellent television producer. Ian of course is one of the world experts though, if not the single greatest expert on the life and times of Adolf Hitler. His two volume epic biography of the Nazi dictator is now the standard text on the subject, and he’s speaking tonight,...
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...Think broadly about the music you experience in everyday life and make a list of up to ten such ‘musical’ sounds. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A890 MA Music part 1...Introducing music research: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand something of the diversity, purposes and...
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...Think about how your environment has determined how you go about certain things, and even whether you go about them at all. Discussion Most of you will have woken up in a bed. While all humans sleep, their beds can look very different depending on their culture and climate. Your bed is a cultural construct. If you’re like me you were woken by an alarm clock. In the long...
Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs