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Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...technology in order to explore the possibility that younger children have a partial understanding of ToM. Another example of an alternative ToM task is based on a task battery developed by Tiffany Hutchins, Patricia Prelock and Wendy Chace (2008). Rather than a single false belief task with a simple right or wrong answer, this battery presents children with a series of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...technology, German also has a long-standing reputation as language of poets and thinkers. [Described image] In this course you will journey to Germany, Austria and Switzerland and further progress your linguistic skills needed for understanding and using the German language. Studying 3-4 hours a week, the course offers the perfect opportunity to continue the development...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...Education. Her research interests include public engagement with law, and marginalised communities and their access to justice. Edwin Parks Edwin is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The Open University and has written a wide range of courses, including materials for OpenLearn, the LLB and Executive Education. He is an international practitioner and experienced OU tutor. Liz...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...education plays a key role in providing people with the knowledge of what constitutes a healthy diet, but as is so often the way with science, the information keeps changing. The information about what we should be eating comes from various sources: in the UK a large amount of data was collected and published by COMA, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...education, and those living in urban environments. In the USA it is more common amongst young black people (Blazer et al., 1991), and there is evidence that it is more common in countries in which there is war or political oppression than in countries at peace (Compton et al., 1991). [Described image] Figure 11 Chronic worry and anxiety characterise GAD. Why might GAD be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...technology. In fact, perceptions of risk are not based solely on quantitative measures but also include subjective value judgements. An individual’s perception is influenced by the degree to which the risk is imposed upon them rather than accepted voluntarily, their knowledge of the problem, their trust in the ‘management’ of the risk, and so on. The net result is...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...educated accent, though with few and wandering aspirates in it. Him I visited every morning to buy for my breakfast one of those Spanish melons which they have everywhere in England, and which put our native cantaloupes to shame; and we always fell into a little talk over our transaction of fourpence or sixpence, as the case might be. After I had confided that I was an...
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Article 10 mins
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...educated and was having a considerably easier time of things if you like. And so, I then could take this as this is only London this is happening, speculate about other, say, urban environments in Europe, and also connect this up with the general issues around globalisation and migration that are taking place. So, for example, somebody from Colombia is specifically from...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs