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Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work

...guide our decisions. They ‘should’ determine our priorities and, unconsciously, often tell us if our lives are the way we want them to be (feeling unhappy and ‘stuck’, or happy and fulfilled). However, there are many of us who do not consistently live by our values, and perhaps some of these situations may resonate? For instance: you strongly disagree with...
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Article 10 mins
The trailblazers of 2024 launch women’s sport into an exciting 2025
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trailblazers of 2024 launch women’s sport into an exciting 2025

...guide to some of the most anticipated competitions you can look forward to: Dates to watch out for in 2025! TENNIS Grand Slam Tournaments: 12 January The Australian Open begins on 12 January, with British number one Katie Boulter set to compete. Subsequent Grand Slam events include the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open, each offering thrilling matches featuring the...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...University’s Psychology courses and qualifications....Week 1: The climate and ecological crisis and how we got here: Introduction - This week, the scene is set for the emerging area called Climate Psychology. Climate Psychology, according to the Handbook available at the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) website is ‘a new way of understanding our collective paralysis...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Intermediate French: Holiday plans
Languages

Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...University course L120 Ouverture: intermediate French. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in French...Intermediate French: Holiday plans: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand spoken descriptions of holiday resorts understand people talking about where and when they take their holidays and why write an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career and to provide evidence of continuing professional development. Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...universes, what I am doing is conceiving of a possibility. There is a difference, then, between ‘imagining’ and ‘imaging’: imagining may involve imaging, but there is a broad sense of ‘imagining’ in which conjuring up images is not a necessary condition for imagining to occur. This is well brought out in the definition of ‘imagination’ that Simon Blackburn...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...University's Open Degree qualifications. 1: Eye witness identifications have led to 77% of wrongful convictions [Photograph, black and white. Five Caucasian men in a police line-up.] Many of us might think we would make a reliable witness and be able to identify a criminal if asked by the police, but chances are we wouldn't as our memory for unfamiliar faces is very poor....
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Article 5 mins
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...University courses But that's very much the sort of sniffy attitude which is strenuously attacked in a new book called Radical Gardening – Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden. Its author is George McKay who's Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford. He now joins me in the studio together with Tim Jordan, Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media...
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Article 15 mins