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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
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
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 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
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...Students and teaching staff who try to work it out and find a pattern always do worst,” he says. “It’s impossible in the time given to decipher the rules of the language and make sense of what’s being said to you. But your brain is primed to work it out subconsciously. That’s why, if you don’t think about it, you’ll do okay in the test – children do the...
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Article 10 mins
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...become more reflective, by bringing together aspects of both your personal and work experiences so you can review and learn from them. Here’s an interview with Steven Donoghue about combining work and study. Lynne Johnson Hi, Dan. Thanks for joining us today. Tell us a little bit about what you’re doing at the moment. Daniel Morrissey I’m a trainee quantity surveyor...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...students obviously know how to turn them off. Parents are also unaware of all the online dangers themselves. Often leaving the children unsupervised for long periods of time whilst on the internet on games consoles, particularly this year Fortnite’s been an absolute nightmare where grooming has taken place where young people have been talking to strangers over the line...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...become an important tool in the development of eugenics and racist thinking, and was later linked with Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories and the racial hierarchies of social Darwinism. The growth of nationalism, and the early emergence of the nation state during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe. Increasingly, matters of political and personal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs