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Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...health and social care) recognise children are not making a choice to be involved in these criminal activities. Children will push boundaries and experiment, but this developmental behaviour of adolescence and an age-appropriate response to risk and increasing need for autonomy does not mean they consent to act criminally. Who is being exploited? From children...
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20 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

20 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...health and psychology to languages, science, history, money and the arts. So if you've ever said, “There's nothing to learn”… we're afraid we're going to have to disagree. 6. Completing every OpenLearn course would take you more than a year Fancy completing the lot? You'd need to study for more than 10,000 hours straight – the equivalent to around 428 days, or...
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Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...public arena, and I felt a duty to provide a forum for people who would otherwise be more or less ignored. RH: Are you a kind of natural contrarian – BP: I guess there is something in me – RH: It’s something that you want to push back against a consensus – BP: Yes, in a way I am a natural contrarian, but on the other hand I am also someone who wants to have a...
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You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...public transport. I take the bus. I’m not good at standing in a queue because I’ve got arthritis and I get awful pain. If I’ve been standing for a long time and sometimes actually in the bus stops, you know, the benches are full, there’s people sitting there and you can’t get a seat. A bike bus is something that I started with some friends and neighbours 4 years...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...public or non-profit sector. This is achieved through a variety of learning techniques, including case studies, videos, activities and group discussions. Supporting this learning, students are encouraged to become critical thinkers about both how they undertake their own decisions, as well as how marketing influences our society...This free course, Marketing in the 21st...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...health and depression identify the role of stress in burnout. First you will look at how sport and training can have negative effects on athletes as in the case of Jonathan Trott who suffered burnout through prolonged stress and imbalance between training, competition and limited downtime. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...health and everything else, it’s not this niche new thing, it’s now an issue that most people are globally aware of, but it’s also got its detractors and its critics, so they’re always quick to jump on any kind of inaccuracy, so I think in environmental filmmaking you need to be even more careful and stringent with your facts. Climate change: A BBC film that made...
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Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...public really, so we’re in touch with everybody around us and everybody that’s following our work and we can really produce exactly what it is that they want to see, so I suppose we’re kind of ticking all the boxes as quickly as possible, whereas TV, they produce fantastic quality stuff but it doesn’t necessarily meet everybody’s requirements of exactly what it...
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