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Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive
Education & Development

Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive

...course – nobody would expect that! It’s fine to opt for the quickest and easiest add-ons, like turning a couple of your slides into a summary handout. Your neurodivergent students will benefit from any additional formats that you’re able to provide. 2. Avoid surprises [Lesson Plan text with alarm clock flat lay on green background] Neurodiversity brings a heavy...
Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...courses to manage and maintain healthy and sustaining professional relationships with your colleagues. ...Workplace relationships A relationship is the connection or association between two things or people. Key psychological aspects of a ‘good’ relationship are mutual trust, respect, commitment and individual responsibility. A good relationship meets the needs of...
‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism

...course, The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide). Convincing athlete activism dispels the myth that sport and politics should not interact, fostering hope that injustices can be addressed to create a more equal and fair society. Many are inspired by athletes who are involved in activism because of their empowered commitment to change, despite the risks...
Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...course, as the publicity of Hidden Figures. But for a long time women didn’t have such visible role models working in science or space. [A photograph of Katherine Johnson seated wearing her newly awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is sat in the centre of the photo with a man sat behind her. She wears a black blazer and orange blouse underneath, with small medals...
Witches in popular culture
History & The Arts

Witches in popular culture

...courses and qualifications [A memorial plaque to the Devon Witches, the last women to be executed for "witchcraft" in England] A memorial to the last women to be killed for 'witchcraft' in the UK - but 300 years later, 'witch' is still a term of abuse thrown at women You would have thought that Western society might have grown out of the habit of portraying powerful women...
Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...course in the shadows of turmoil across the border. Dublin was alive back then, Ireland was full of being a “new country”, we had a female president who talked funny but was mega smart, stand up and bow Mrs. Robinson. And, no, I know what you are thinking but here’s to you Mrs. Robinson, our first female president. U2 were conquering the airwaves and our tiny nation...
Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...course that the subjects of these media representations, animals and plants are threatened in their existence by humans through the exploitation of natural and geological resources. And they stand no chance against humans. Help others see the truth. The system is stacked in favour of corporations continuing in their exploitation of environmental resources and our...
Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...course the vikings were more than just bloodthirsty pirates: they were also settlers, landholders, farmers, politicians, and merchants. The connections between technology, urban trading, and international economics which have come to define modern living are nothing new. Back in the first millennium AD, the Vikings were experts at exploring these very issues. Between the...