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Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...work in progress and can be variable in success. Research undertaken by The Open University has revealed that learners experiencing mental ill-health are very reticent to ask for support from their educator (Lister et al., 2021). Learners reported that knowing their educators were supportive and genuinely cared about their mental health needs made a big difference to...
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...work. ILONA ROTH: Welcome to this free course exploring autism, and how it affects the lives of individuals and their families. Over the years that I've had the privilege to work on autism, insights have improved markedly with some positive outcomes for the lives of autistic people. Yet, despite all the progress, there are still huge gaps in understanding. And most...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...work alone as individuals, or perhaps within a household, or these days, a person selling goods via eBay. Often sellers are organisations such as businesses. A business may be a local takeaway, or may operate in multiple locations across the globe; both are, in economic terms, referred to as firms. In this course you will focus on firms as the main economic agents...
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...work, personal relationships and social life – in fact most areas of daily living. Often they live in fear of having more attacks, worry constantly about what the attacks are and what might happen as a result of them, and change how they live to try and avoid future attacks – e.g. by not going into public places. Unfortunately, fear of a panic attack may become such a...
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...that what happens in the early years impacts on a happy and healthy childhood. So the work that you do is absolutely vital to the national effort to give our children the best start in life. One of the things that we've learned over the last few years is the benefits of physical activity in health and wellbeing at all ages. From the very smallest babies when we start to give them tummy time and to support their head and ......
Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change

...work for Shell. It wasn’t particularly energy that struck me as the most interesting thing when I joined the company, it was more the challenge to work on nice projects, work internationally, work on complex technical and organisational issues, etc., and live in different countries. And in that sense the company has not disappointed. RH: But now you’ve found yourself...
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...work within the novel...This free course, Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, is designed to tell you something about Hardy's background, and to introduce you to the pleasures of reading a nineteenth-century novel. Why do we believe in fictional characters and care about what happens to them? You will discover some of the techniques that Hardy uses to...
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...working wall. 45 minutes 3 Watch the United Nations’ Numbers in Action video and consider the reflection points. 20 minutes 4 Read the extract from The Healer and consider the reflection points. 15 minutes 5 Browse the Exile Voices photography project and consider the reflection points. 15 minutes 6 Watch the video Did you know, in 2028… and consider the reflection...