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Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...technology, so you could imagine that musicians or comedians or drama students, actors and actresses, teachers, specialist groups like religions, could really take that archive and do something so different with it that we have never thought of and would never think of, because we’re not those kinds of people. So the fact that you could make a rap song and use archive...
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Video 20 mins
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...technology and telecommunications for altering comparative advantage, it claimed that ‘new location factors’ were opening up economic opportunities for peripheral regions and more ‘even’ development. However, it remained the case that EU integration was mainly a market-led neo-liberal project and the redistributive measures to counter the negative effects of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...education, defence, the transport infrastructure and the police service. Money raised in taxes goes a substantial way towards paying for the physical and social framework within which citizens live and work. This money, raised and spent collectively, reduces the need for private expenditure that would otherwise be required for health, education and so on. State benefits...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...education can help, you may want to further explore OpenLearn, FutureLearn or organisations like Men’s Sheds Cymru. For further support, Ageing Well in Wales have developed a pocket guide to help with loneliness. Although this is aimed at older people, the advice is universal in helping with feelings of loneliness and making connections. Mental health problems This...
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Article 10 mins
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...educated at home and reputedly learned Chinese by listening outside the door while her father taught her brother. She married at about the age of twenty but her husband died soon after, leaving her with a daughter. She then lived quietly for some years. In 1004 Murasaki entered the service of the Empress Akiko, possibly due to her talent for story-writing. No one knows...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...education. The ten words she chose (Figure 3) look very different to Sevasti’s because they have very different research interests. Your ten words will be unique to you and your interests. To design a draft research question, you could look to how these words could be combined. For example, a question that comes out of Ann’s ten words in Figure 3 might be: how...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...education, so you’re basically stigmatised for life. We have thousands of Black and Latino men, who have basically been pushed out of society – permanently – as a result of their involvement in drugs, which means that they’re not able to be good fathers to their children, to be good partners to the women and the mothers, the people in their lives. It means that...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr