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Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. ...Week 1: What is law?: Introduction - During this week you consider and explore what law is. Law plays a central role in society and is influenced by social, political and economic...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...Introduction - What influences children’s play decisions and creative choices, and how do they show their preferences and have their voice heard through their play? In this free course, Children’s perspectives on play, you will explore children’s play and creativity in a range of different situations, and consider what influences their play decisions and creative...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...project. But then they are shown the case detection data. The rats are saving lives every day, and, argue some advocates, the time has now come for dogs to do the same. There is a lyric of a Van Morrison song: ‘I can smell your TB sheets’. The first ‘Lancet letter’ came in 1989. Writing, as the name suggests, in the Lancet medical journal, a pair of dermatologists...
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Article 5 mins
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...Introduction - Religion is not necessarily what you think it is! This free course, Religious diversity: rethinking religion, will present a selection of the vast variety of religious practices and beliefs in Britain today. Having familiarity with religions is increasingly required to make sense of issues of local, national and global importance. This course will introduce...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...projection for example. You could see how that's happened on the whole national level and over the Brexit issue where we've projected all our fear of the future onto Romanian guest workers. Asa Bennett When you look at something like Brexit it does make sense of why the accusations of lying fly around because the stakes are so high and this is such an important process...
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Video 5 mins
What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...managed to buy a single meal for his family along the way. More importantly, it was very difficult for people like Pintu and even the scrap buyers to get the new 500 and 2,000 rupee bills issued to replace the eliminated notes. The chain had been damaged: With cash in short supply everywhere, scrap buyers couldn’t pay the collectors, who in turn had more trouble...
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Article 5 mins
How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...out in more local settings – at my own university in 1966, Peter Lloyd, catering manager at the newly-established University of Warwick, averted a protest over the cost and quality of food in the student canteen by lowering the price of sausages by one penny. Let them eat sausages. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Article 5 mins
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...managing their own feelings of being ‘an unwanted guest’, while at the same time believing that engagement is achievable, as is change in the parents. Discussion reflects some of the personal challenges of working with those who find change very difficult and the tension between believing in the possibility of change but being realistic about what can be achieved and...
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Video 10 mins