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What failing in the learning journey feels like
Education & Development

What failing in the learning journey feels like

...management. Students who fail often withdraw socially and academically, assuming they are alone in their experience. In reality, many students share similar feelings of shock, loss, and confusion. They express a desire for peer connection, for someone to say, ‘I’ve been there.’ The absence of visible failure narratives within the student community or institutional...
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History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...Introduction - The purpose of this course is to demonstrate how the UK Reading Experience Database (UK RED) can be used in a study of the reading and reception of a literary text. The example chosen for the case study is Daniel Defoe’s famous novel, Robinson Crusoe (1719), and the course takes the student through the process of locating evidence of reading Robinson...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...Introduction - Sixty-five million years ago, animal and plant life were very different from nowadays, but there were rat-sized placental mammals living successfully on the ground. They were insect eaters, i.e. insectivores, feeding on the vast numbers of insects and other invertebrates living in soil, leaf litter and low-lying vegetation. Insectivore means 'insect eater',...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?
Money & Business

Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?

...manage the business, BHS failed in this and fell behind. The fastest growing retailers in the UK today are identified by their omni-channel approach, innovative use of physical stores, clever deployment of emerging technologies and international strategies. Whether large or small, success comes from understanding and engaging consumers and meeting their needs; things that...
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Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...manage resource demands that don’t stretch sufficiently to accommodate all needs; you will meet patients – many with complex care needs who are faced with uncertainty about treatment; you will see staff frustrated by the constraints they are working within yet, you will see how committed they are to doing their best for patients and for their organisation. Hospitals...
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Article 10 mins
Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...managed by people capable of devising alternate methods to deliver it that they’d have little trouble circumnavigating any future rules. For parents, part of the problem is how you manage your children’s use of the internet. You can’t hover over their shoulder every time they go online but leaving them exposed to all that is out there is an appealing prospect too....
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Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...management”, which placed a focus on using employment, diet, surroundings and recreational activities as forms of therapy. When state-run asylums were first introduced in Britain in the early 19th century, music soon became included as a form of moral management to distract patients outside of working hours and keep them occupied. Both music and dance were efficient...
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Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments
Science, Maths & Technology

Getting to the heart of it: investigating side effects of anti-cancer treatments

...managed in the clinic? In the clinic, cardiotoxicity is managed by modifying treatment regimens, promoting regular exercise and a healthy diet, and by closely monitoring individuals that may be at risk of developing treatment-related cardiotoxicity. Patients can be monitored through blood tests to detect biomarkers of abnormal heart function, and through assessing how...
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