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Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...think about a number of different types of business because they have different characteristics and behave differently. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B100 An introduction to business and management...Different types of business: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe different types...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...think around ten percent, or maybe just over ten percent, of the school age population is from a non-white, non-British background. So it's a significant proportion of young people who have a different ethnicity or a different religion, or a different nationality, a different language, a different home life, which makes it more difficult, and they face an extra challenge...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...think about religion and spirituality in your own context. The following activity will help you to understand how complex modern religious identities are, as well as clarify your own position – and maybe some preconceptions too! Most importantly, it will show you that ‘religion’ does not refer to one specific thing, but can indicate a range of different things,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?

...thinking. There was, of course, no “Gate of Ijtihad” to be closed, and nobody had the authority to close the gate even if one had existed. The metaphor, however, highlighted the contrast between the cultivation of diversity in the first three centuries of Sharia and the stalemate and rigidity of the study of Islamic law since then. The “silver lining” of ISIS is...
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Article 10 mins
The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of walking and socialising through 5 Ways Café on people living with dementia and their carers: A volunteer’s perspective

...think there is a need and interest with scope for expansion if promoted correctly.” The OU and Parks Trust research team contunied and finished the research after the measures linking to Covid-19 pandemic were lifted.. We are currently in the process of publishing our findings. During the Covid-19 pandemic time we have co-designed and coproduces several resources that...
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Article 10 mins
Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...think about. When looking at it in detail under a microscope, it is fascinating to see how well organised it is to allow the co-ordinated contractions to happen. The contractile cells are specialised muscle cells called cardiac myocytes. The image of heart tissue from a mouse shows the structure of a cardiac myocyte, taken at extremely high resolution, using an electron...
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Article 10 mins
Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...systems such as our society on a wider scale and their views on ‘loss’. I write this, not to give you ‘tips’ on how to ‘grieve’, but more to share my experience of bereavement and how the feelings of loss feel like for me and others and some of the key thoughts to consider. This blog (that this article has been taken from) has come after an internship I was on...
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Article 5 mins
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...think about settling elsewhere, even though island life held so many challenges and uncertainties, and for most, returning meant a lower standard of living. Through their talk about the changes and increasing difficulty of coastal life, but also through their deep loyalty to their home island, it seemed to me that the villagers invoked a distinctive moral economy. One in...
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Video 15 mins