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What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...world and see what I see.’ W.N. Herbert It’s a poem about where we always go on holiday, which my daughter assumes is just going to continue for ever and ever, which is the same little town in Crete and the bay. The poem’s actually named after the bay, so it’s got a Greek name – ‘Ormos Almirou’ – and it was about just one moment when we were playing in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...World Health Organization (WHO) in the years following the Second World War: Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (World Health Organization, 1948) What work is the word ‘wellbeing’ doing in this definition? First, it signals an attempt to bring together different aspects of health –...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...World Health Organization (WHO, 2002), about 1.7 million people die each year due to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene. In this text we consider in outline the major sources of pollution and the effect that pollutants have on the aquatic environment. The activities located throughout the text will help you to review and remember what you have read. This OpenLearn...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...world. Increasingly electronics is at the cutting edge of technology, as illustrated in the following video. TIM DRYSDALE Electronics has come a long way in seven decades. Even more importantly, it’s helped the world develop at a pace that is unprecedented in human history. BERNIE CLARK Ray Kurzweil estimates the next 100 years will bring a rate of change equal in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...world. The racialisation of social policy around knife crime, gang violence, and terrorism demonstrates how policy isn’t neutral; rather it can feed into longstanding issues of racial inequality and injustice. Policy should alleviate social suffering, instead it is making it worse, this can be demonstrated by the disproportionality of Black people who are stopped and...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...world. Expectant mothers grapple with all kinds of health conditions, from depression to diabetes, migraines to malaria, epilepsy, Crohn’s disease and more. Many are offered medications for their maladies: precise figures are hard to pin down, but according to several reviews of prescription databases, the share of pregnant women who receive at least one prescription...
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Article 15 mins
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...world, many disabled people now could potentially have better and more independent access to information and communication. New technology developments can make this access easier, but they can also raise new barriers. These barriers can often be removed by considering the needs of disabled users when designing and implementing electronic or online educational...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...world examples of the following products were grown: apples potatoes tomatoes. Answer Did you find that the fresh fruit and vegetables came from different parts of the world? The results from my supermarket trip were as follows: apples – grown in France potatoes – grown in the UK tomatoes – grown in Spain. What we are interested in is how these products got to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs