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Is sleep the secret of success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is sleep the secret of success?

...sports and fitness, find videos, articles, games and free courses on OpenLearn. This topic will be covered further in a new Open University module coming soon. If you're interested in studying Sports and Fitness formally, explore more courses and qualifications we offer in this subject area. This article was first published on the OU Sports & Fitness blog. Transcript...
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Revealed: what sexism in call centres can teach us about sexism in society
Society, Politics & Law

Revealed: what sexism in call centres can teach us about sexism in society

...course, greater female rule compliance is just one among several explanations for why women are disproportionately represented in call centre jobs. Some women may choose themselves to work in call centres. Call centre work is often amenable to flexible working, which makes it attractive to women of child-rearing age. And, of course, there are deep-rooted beliefs in...
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Machiavelli and Political power
Society, Politics & Law

Machiavelli and Political power

...course AA311 Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill If you would like to learn more about the history of the 19th Century then have a look at course A221 State, Economy and Nation in the Nineteenth-Century Europe If you would like to find out more about these subjects, here are a few suggestions. Books you can read The Prince,Niccolo Machiavelli, Peter...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...and even plastic as products of our shared world. We need to live alongside, and not in charge, of life on our planet. To learn more about identifying the support needs of young children, check out this free OpenLearn Create course Scottish early learning and childcare practitioners' courses [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to explore the COP26 hub...
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Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?
History & The Arts

Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?

...course, is that we care less about things that happened many years ago than about things that happened more recently. However, that will not do as a reply as it simply puts off answering the question: is it right that we care less? Jack the Ripper’s victims suffered as much as the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims; they were all living, breathing, feeling individuals whose...
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Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...course on trust. This provides an overview of trust in the workplace and serves as a gentle introduction to this topic: Developing high trust work relationships. In development following our plan to launch this hub is a further course complementing the first. This will focus on Trust breaches and addresses the idea of trust as something that can be breached, the impact of...
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Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...courses [A cat looking at a laptop ] Just do it. Forget about procrastination. The time is now. Write early in the morning, before you have time to distract yourself with self-doubt and Twitter. Write the first thing that comes into your head, and don’t stop for at least 20 minutes. After that, you are more likely to carry on. Then do the same thing tomorrow. It really...
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Young people making their own media
Education & Development

Young people making their own media

...course, as with any community - particularly one built around passion - there are also rifts and schisms, personal and intellectual debates and clashes. [Three young women dressed in Teen Titan costumes for cosplay. ] Teen Titans cosplayers at the 2014 Amazing Arizona Comic Con at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Another form of youth-driven media has...
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