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Mistaken identity? Sharing experiences as a South Asian woman
Education & Development

Mistaken identity? Sharing experiences as a South Asian woman

...children’s names mixed up all the time, I often confuse them with the dog and vice-versa! However, I’m not at home or dashing madly about juggling 101 things, I’m at work where I expect people to have enough respect and interest to know my name, know that I am different to someone else of colour and have the decency to recognise when they have got it wrong and...
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Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...Warnock about the ethics dilemmas of having children. Find out more about Mary, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Human Use of Animals Peter Singer, possibly the most famous philosopher in the world, sparked the birth of the animal rights movement. Discover his take on the human use of animals. Find out more about Peter, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites....
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Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...research and knowledge exchange between The Open University (Open University in Ireland, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Open University Library) and participants in the Time to Think archive. This includes Loyalist and Republican ex-prisoners who studied with The Open University in British and Irish prisons during the years of conflict (1972–2000), Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...centres: These are often a good way of building a picture of employees’ development needs across a range of functions and activities. If used for TNA purposes, they need to be aligned with the overall performance management strategy. Observations: You might decide to collect data on what skills are deployed in a more naturalistic setting than that offered by interviews...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...research in this field often looks at the structures and the physical processes going on within the brain. So this approach is often referred to as being based on a ‘bio-medical’ model of mental health...Making sense of mental health problems: 2.1 Diagnostic handbooks - Figure 3 Maggie from the interactive ‘A Support Net’ which is associated with this OpenLearn...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...children with learning disabilities (The Open University, 2022). This highly offensive language was used both about and to learners, and promoted an unfounded belief that children and young people who experienced mental illness, or learning difficulties, were less intelligent than others. Ethnic minority pupils were disproportionately classified as ESN, and this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing
Education & Development

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...Research also shows that when Turnitin is used as a developmental tool, your perceptions shift: you can use it as a learning tool rather than simply a plagiarism detector (Oldham, 2025). This approach supports the broader benefits of formative assessment — enhancing understanding, scaffolding performance, and empowering you to self-regulate learning (Marks, 2025). By...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...Children (1981). Did you note also the perhaps parodying use of that familiar story-opener ‘once upon a time’ – undercut straightaway by the narrator's change of mind: ‘No, that won't do’. We are then given a very specific setting, not just Bombay – a city perhaps exotic and unfamiliar to many readers – but also the name of the Nursing Home and an actual...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs