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Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...adult skill development. Find out more here cpdstandards.com/research. By participating in this high-profile research, you will be contributing to scientific knowledge about adult skill development and how we can develop successful future careers. Participation is confidential, voluntary and we will not pass on your details to others....Session 1: What is a learning...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...adults; or a proportion: the proportion of children in the village population is a quarter. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Mathematics...Ratio, proportion and percentages: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: with simple ratios convert between fractions, decimals and percentages explain the meaning of ratio,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...Adult Health in Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a series of public talks titled ‘Ageing Well’. These 6 lectures are presented on a monthly basis and aim to facilitate your learning about agerelated changes and things we need to be mindful of, as we grow older. All the way...
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Video 10 mins
What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...adults worldwide used a bank account to make or receive payments over a 12-month period. When cash disappears So what happens when 86 percent of a nation’s currency suddenly disappears? When I returned in December 2016, a month after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that all 500 and 1,000 rupee bills would cease to be legal tender, a scrap collector I knew...
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Article 5 mins
Is Tinder changing the way the world dates?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Tinder changing the way the world dates?

...adults in Western society seek and pursue romantic and sexual partners. A recent study by Mitchell Hobbs, Stephen Owen and Livia Gerber (2016) asks whether that assessment is really true. The project explores the experiences of dating app users and investigates how the technology has influenced their sexual practices and views on romantic ideals and long-term...
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Article 5 mins
What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?
Society, Politics & Law

What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?

...adult trauma, or directly or indirectly through work’ (Gillespie-Smith et al., 2018, p. 35). Being informed about trauma Trauma can happen at any stage of the life cycle. It is the result of an incident or series of incidents or circumstances that are traumatic in nature. They are ‘physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and … [have] lasting adverse...
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Article 5 mins
The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...adults from both communities died as a result of barbaric ‘medical’ experiments and they were murdered in its gas chambers. It’s estimated that 500,000, 25% of the Roma pre-war European population, perished as a result of Nazi persecution. The genocide is known as the Porrajmos; the ‘devouring’. Since the war, the Roma have continued to be discriminated against...
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Article 10 mins
Festival of Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Festival of Psychology

...adult ‘other,’ coupled with a sometimes-hostile sociocultural context, can exaggerate tensions or facilitate interactions in the parent-child relationship. The young people’s views and experiences illuminate how they navigate these complexities. Online Interventions for the Treatment of Movement Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease [Dr Joshua Payne] Dr Joshua Payne...
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Video 2 hrs