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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...become more affluent they have consumed more goods and in turn the volume of waste produced has increased. This free course, Waste management and environmentalism in China, explores how the Chinese can deal with increasing volumes of waste, drawing parallels with the UK experience of waste management. You will also consider the conceptual tools that can be used to make...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...OU Enduring Love? Project. Queer: A Graphic History (with artist Julia Scheele) is a comic about what queer theory is and how it might be useful in people’s lives. Moving anticlockwise to the top left, I’ve also conducted my own research into self-help, which informs my wider project. For example, Ros Gill, Laura Harvey and I are writing an academic book based on our...
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Article 5 mins
NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it
Society, Politics & Law

NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it

...OU collection exploring what Good Friday Agreement means 25 yars on This arcicle is part of "A Peace of Us", our special collection of resources exploring what the Good Friday Agreement brought to our lives in the 25 years since its signing. I often hear the refrain “nothing ever changes in this place” and “politics always stays the same” but as CS Lewis once...
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Article 5 mins
The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care

...review and meta-analysis. Physician and Sportsmedicine, 42(2), 48–57. UCAS (2019). UCAS Courses Search. Retrieved March 13, 2019, from https://digital.ucas.com/search/results?SearchText=sports therapy&filters=Destination_Undergraduate Read the other articles in this collection Now take a free related course How much do you know about science in sport? Study with the OU...
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Article 5 mins
Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important

...OU foundation degree curriculum to support trainee nursing associates to develop professional identity. ‘A framework to effectively promote professional identity in nursing associates: a realist ethnographic study’. Open University, UK. Thurgate, C., & Griggs, C. (2023) Nursing associates 6 years on: a review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 32,...
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Article 5 mins
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...becomes more important to think carefully about the answer that you will be expecting. Should it be bigger or smaller than the number you started with? Let’s have a look at an example before you have a go yourself. If you have a photograph that measures eight inches by ten inches, as shown in Figure 2, what is the total distance around the photo in feet and inches? [A...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...students revising for exams where it has been found to improve recall. For example if you had to take a psychology exam you could make up mental images of some of the research you have read about and arrange these images in a logical sequence around your home. Using mental images to organise our thoughts can make our thinking and remembering much more efficient. However...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...become essential to children’s learning in primary schools across the UK and further afield. Whatever your learning support role in schools may be, you are part of this historic development. For convenience, we have adopted the generic term ‘teaching assistant’ throughout this free course, Teaching assistants: Support in action. We use these words in preference to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs