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Exploring how minds work differently and brilliantly. This hub brings together free OpenLearn courses, articles and personal stories on autism, ADHD, dyslexia and more.
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Setting the scene When we think about things like militancy, trade unionism, struggle and fightback, we draw on familiar imagery of braziers at shipyard gates and pitheads. We think of charged mass meetings, packed full of angry and determined … well, men. It is perhaps hard for us to contemplate, then, that early in the first...
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The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...accident study sourced from EF Loftus and JC Palmer, ‘Reconstruction of automobile destruction: an example of the interaction between language and memory’, Journal of Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974. About this article This article is based on extracts taken from the Open University Business School course Making a Difference (B830). Study a free psychology course...
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Why do volcanoes erupt?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do volcanoes erupt?

...with The Open University: Volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis. This course extract is adapted from Block 3, Internal Processes, of the course Geology (S260) which ceased presentation in 2009. Good news: There are still lots of ways to study geology at the University It was originally made available more widely as part of the Rough Science: Colorado content on Open2.net...
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Article 15 mins
Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses We know that as we grow older, we are at higher risk of having multiple long-term health conditions, which we call multimorbidity, and using multiple medications, which we call polypharmacy. This combination of ageing, multimorbidity and polypharmacy inevitably comes with some risks – these are explored in a previous...
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Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...Open University (23 April 1969), the spaghetti Western - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was released. The film grossed over $25million at the box office in North America alone. The relevance of this, well it’s all in the title - 50 years of sports technology has thankfully provided us with a lot of ‘Good’, sorted out some of the ‘Bad’ and, unfortunately,...
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Seven projects that show we are in a golden age of engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven projects that show we are in a golden age of engineering

...open in 2020), will provide an east-west link across London, transform the way commuters travel in and out of the city and the South East and increase rail capacity in the capital by around 10%. The new 200-metre-long trains (the length of two football pitches!) will allow space for 1,500 passengers. With over 100 kilometres of new train lines and ten new stations, the...
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Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation
Society, Politics & Law

Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation

...Open University’s Centre for Policing Research and Learning, this relates to victims of rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO). The impact of trauma in the workplace Trauma can present in several ways in the workplace. Employees with trauma may struggle with anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While this can impact on their general welfare...
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