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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...Openness (with high scorers interested in art and abstract ideas, low scorers practical and down to earth), Conscientiousness (with high scorers methodical and dutiful, low scorers more distractible), and Agreeableness (with high scorers cooperative and trusting, and low scorers more aggressive and hostile). Together these make up the ‘big five’, or OCEAN (Openness,...
Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...Open University's Health and Social Care qualifications. Death is part of life and is something we all need to face; not only our own death, but the deaths of those around us. Yet many of us are unprepared for this major event in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed us all to more deaths. However, those deaths were likely to be in hospital with few, if any, family...
Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters

...opens up the opportunity for some more honest discussion about veganism. These lively debates in exchanges illustrate many of the issues that we've discussed but they also see many of the old stereotypes and assumptions challenged. Like many progressive social movements, veganism still seems to stimulate a lot of defensive responses. -End of opinion piece- As veganism is...
Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...open access handbook on Research Methods can help you get more insights into the different layers of research design. Postgraduate researcher talks about research questions and methodology Student Transcript Supervisor Transcript Data collection techniques There are many methods available for you to collect your data. Robson (2011, pp. 232-233) outlines the following rule...
Autumn on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

Autumn on OpenLearn

...course...1: Walk among the autumnal landscape The woods provide the perfect backdrop for an autumn walk, with an array of rich colours and woodland creatures. Why not take a walk there and check out the nature happening around you? Here are some free resources to inspire you to do so. 2: Make the most of the night sky October provides the Orionids and the Draconids –...
Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit
Money & Business

Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit

...courses and other resources to help you thrive in an ever-changing digital hybrid world...This toolkit offers holistic, human-centred approaches for organisations making the shift to sustainable hybrid working and digital futures. You’ll learn about a range of topics in the collection, including: Digital skills and leadership Digital transformation and building a...
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Interview Edit Transcript Tim Lenton interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer TL: = Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science, participant. RH: So this is Tim Lenton. Tim let’s start with the science. Where do you think, just thinking of macro terms, not just your stuff, but including your stuff, what have we...
Does your personality influence your career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does your personality influence your career?

...personality. Whether they enjoy their job or not, again, can be dependent on the match between their personality and the job they’re doing. And then, of course, to get into an occupation you need to be recruited, and employers are looking to recruit people with particular personality types for particular jobs. There’s all sorts of ways in which those two overlap....