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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...introduction of an eggplant-flavoured condom to their range as part of a spoof publicity stunt in reaction to the Unicode Consortium (the organisation who oversee all thing emoji) turning down their proposal for a condom emoji. And then there’s the company Eggplant Mail, which will anonymously send an actual aubergine, inscribed with a message of your choice, through...
Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...introductions to alternative approaches to wellbeing which challenge the taken for granted, causal links between size and ill health. You can learn more about Lucy Aphramor’s ‘Well Now’ approach (offering workshops for both clients and wellbeing practitioners) on her website. There is a Health at Every Size UK website with links to practitioners working from the...
From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...introduction to Bayesian thinking Bayesian statistics provides a framework for combining prior knowledge with observed data. Named after Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century mathematician, this approach is based on a simple idea: our beliefs about an unknown quantity can be updated as new evidence becomes available. Rather than eliminating uncertainty, Bayesian methods...
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...Introduction - Welcome to this short course looking at the relationship between places and well-being. Before you get stuck into the research in this area, start with the first activity. Activity 1: Emotion mapping Timing: 20 minutes Emotion mapping is a technique used in both therapy and research to understand how people relate to the places they live in. Have a go at...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...Introduction - The purpose of this course is to demonstrate how the UK Reading Experience Database (RED) can be used in a study of the reading habits of a writer, and how this information can be used in a literary study of that writer’s own writing. To this end we will be focussing on the reading experiences of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee. This course...
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...Introduction - In this free course, Exploring philosophy: faking nature, you will examine the restoration thesis. But what is the restoration thesis? Watch the following video that introduces the idea of the restoration thesis. DEREK MATRAVERS Imagine a pristine landscape, a piece of nature that's escaped all human intervention. Well, now imagine that some valuable...
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...management in areas where transmission persists. Migrant workers and travellers in affected regions should also be vaccinated to prevent spread of the virus. Countries and areas with strong travel links to affected countries and with a local vector, such as China, should implement outbreak preparedness by improving surveillance and stockpiling emergency vaccinations. Read...
Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...project team leader). The desired goal may have originated in a review meeting or feedback session, but coaching has been shown to be most effective if run as separate sessions, at times when both coach and coachee can be present in both mind and body. Using the OSCAR Model The coach and the coachee start by discussing the issue/situation/goal, as well as establishing a...