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COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...everyday acts of creative communication enabled by smartphones have been key to establishing and sustaining personal and collective resilience under lockdown. Creative expression defines a sense of self, anchors the individual in the moment, strengthens existing communities and forges new ones. [A drawing of a woman in a sketchbook] Portrait of my mother: living under...
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Think like an entrepreneur
Money & Business

Think like an entrepreneur

...everyday items into premium experiences to building platforms that change how we live and work, entrepreneurs think differently. They combine creativity with resilience, testing ideas, learning from setbacks, and adapting fast. In this interactive, guided by entrepreneur and business expert Julian Hall, you’ll explore what makes entrepreneurs unique, the different paths...
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Activity 5 mins
How to be a great trans ally
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to be a great trans ally

...everyday settings, will help you to correctly identify what type of allyship could suit you and which could suit others. Check out the following interactive exploring how to be a supportive trans ally. How to be a great trans ally For those who might prefer to access this learning in a different way, you can listen to this free downloadable audiobook based on this...
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Activity 10 mins
Children and the Internet
Health, Sports & Psychology

Children and the Internet

...everyday life but its easy accessibility means that this is amplified. Along with being an incredible resource with numerous benefits come concerns about its long term effects on child psychology... How children use the internet Professor Sonia Livingstone discusses why she was drawn to this area of research Percieved dangers Professor Sonia Livingstone explains the risks...
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Video 36 mins
Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Biodiversity

...everyday observations and online databases help to increase our knowledge about the diversity of species? On this album, Jonathan Silvertown, Professor of Ecology at The Open University, presents a guided tour of iSpot, a nature website that gives anybody and everybody a chance to share their observations and learn more about wildlife. In the audio track, Professor...
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Introducing Health Sciences: COPD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: COPD

...everyday activities become impossible - from walking to the shops, to cleaning their teeth - because they can't get enough oxygen into their lungs. The 4 video tracks on this album look at the possible causes of COPD, how it is diagnosed, and the inspirational stories of people dealing with the disease. This material forms part of The Open University course SDK125,...
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Audio 28 mins
Earth's physical resources: rocks for roads
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth's physical resources: rocks for roads

Everyday life and the fabric of modern civilisation depend on using the Earth’s physical resources. This album explores the occurrence, availability, exploitation and sustainability of rocks and minerals. The two video tracks feature Thrislington and Divithill quarries in the north of England. Quarry and road construction managers talk about extraction and road laying...
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Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...English professional football. Their rise to becoming one of leading clubs in English and European football again is a story that reveals a lot about the profound and wide-ranging transformation of football over the last 50 years. The late 1960s and early 1970s were something of a golden age for British football with British teams, Celtic and Manchester United, winning...
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