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Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...Open University course SK298 Brain, mind and mental health...Understanding ADHD: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define key terms in the field of ADHD describe the characteristics of ADHD and how they are used in diagnosis describe the patterns of prevalence of ADHD, including the reasons for disparities worldwide describe risk...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...in the audio programme were: John Clarke Professor of Social Policy at The Open University; Dr Digby Johnson a member of The Social Affairs Unit (a registered charity); Bea Campbell a writer and journalist. Activity 1 Listen to the linked audio files, Evidence and Argument. You may want to use the titles and spaces on the attached document to make notes on the arguments while you are listening. Please click here to......
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...Open University's Computing and IT courses. [Ada Lovelace] Who was Ada Lovelace? I would have bought and sent a card if only Clintons carried them. Ada Lovelace Day has been set up to commemorate the important role of women in technology. It wouldn’t be surprising if you haven’t heard of Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, who must be considered the World’s...
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Article 15 mins
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD212 Understanding criminology...Critical criminology and the social sciences: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: outline the scope and nature of some of the key disciplines in the social sciences identify the core features of critical criminology explain how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...opening new avenues for exploring human motivation, desire, and the hidden dimensions of psychological experience. Evidence of this movement can be found in both twentieth and twenty first century Irish Gothic fiction and is particularly highlighted in the work of Irish novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Bowen. [Photograph of Sigmund Freud]Photograph of Sigmund...
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Article 45 mins
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...Open University course A113 Revolutions63and is part of a set of four OpenLearn courses, covering Revolutions of the Sixties64. Transcript...Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution: Introduction - Are we always free to choose one course of action over another, regardless of the situation that we are facing? Many of us would answer ‘no’ to this question. Yet,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...source result from artificial rather than natural sources cause hidden and irreversible damage pose particular danger to small children or pregnant women, or to future generations threaten a form of death or illness arousing particular dread damage identifiable rather than anonymous victims be poorly understood by science be subject to contradictory statements from...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...opening up private and public archives, as well as the conservation of king cobras, environmental filmmakers around the world, and the box office success of River Monsters. ...Harry Marshall Harry is the Creative Director of Icon Films – a long established award-winning, UK independent production company. Over the last 25 years Icon Films has produced over 290 hours of...
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Video 30 mins