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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...family and friends. Woolf shared a passionate interest in ‘intermediality’ with the Modernists, including T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Katherine Mansfield, too. She spoke, then, for many of her contemporaries when she wrote in a letter of 1899 that music, rather than literature, seemed to her the ‘nearest to truth’. This article originally appeared...
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Article 10 mins
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...histories. Abuse, rejection and separation played a part in creating her experiences of mental distress. She also highlights how her experiences of mental health systems had a negative impact on their lives, compounding her original difficulties. She has a voice now, as a survivor and writer, but the systems of the time sought to silence her. Her accounts also point to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...history’. I think the financial sector brings together those two, very different, understandings in an effort to help people make investment decisions. In terms of what people understand, I think what the research showed, quite clearly, is that there are two different components in terms of people’s understanding of risk. There is a general understanding about the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...history – from the clay tokens used in Mesopotamia to mechanical calculating machines. The invention of the digital computer has boosted the scale, speed and reach with which thinking tools extend our natural capabilities. This free course, Digital thinking tools for better decision making, starts by placing thinking tools in their historical context and concludes with...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...family and friends. There's a lot you can do online when it comes to taking care of your health care, too. From apps to help you boost your well-being to potentially connecting with your GP surgery, the option of booking appointments with your GP or ordering repeat prescriptions will soon be available to more people. And in the future, you'll be able to access a summary...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...families of children with special educational needs and disabilities. Silvana Mengoni is a research fellow in the Child and Youth Studies Group in the Faculty for Education and Language Studies at The Open University. She’s been working on a project called Early Support, which collects together psychology research that sets out when certain developmental milestones are...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...family. It is unpaid and undertaken freely and by choice’ (Department for Communities, 2019). Data from the Northern Ireland Department for Communities and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency highlight that volunteering remains relatively high in Northern Ireland. Key headline figures from 2018/2019 indicate that: The proportion of the adult population...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...family, the home and the local environment are contexts where playing and learning seem to be inextricably linked...Children’s perspectives on play: 2.2 Using facts, opinions or arguments - From the two videos you watched in Activities 1 and 2, you will have formed an opinion about the children’s play and their creative experiences from that play. It is important to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs