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The Quilt of Excellence: how to support older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Quilt of Excellence: how to support older people with learning disabilities and their families

...based on cutting-edge research, explores the three key elements to providing excellent care to older people with learning disabilities. [Quilt of excellence - Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities (Free course)] Transcript You can see from the Quilt of Excellence animation that really good support for people with learning disabilities and their...
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Video 10 mins
Password checker
Digital & Computing

Password checker

...based on the length of your password and the variety of numbers, letters and symbols used. The higher the score, the more secure your password is. You can show your password by unchecking the 'hide' box to the left of these instructions. Make sure you don't leave your password visible to other people! Please note this tool does not send or record your password in any way....
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Activity 5 mins
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...based on the linked binaries of hero v villain, good v bad, and right v wrong, with the former winning out in the end. More recent versions of superhero movies trouble these simple distinctions somewhat. For example, The Dark Knight version of Batman is less clear cut, and the two groups of X-men can be seen as more about assimilationism v radical approaches to activism....
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Article 15 mins
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...de la Fontaine (1621–95). The moral of the painting is expressed in the final lines of the poem: A poor woodsman, covered in foliage, Burdened by branches and years, Groaning and bent, walks in heavy steps, Struggling to reach his smoky cottage. Finally, out of energy and in great pain, He lays down his load and ponders his misery. ‘What pleasure have I had since...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Advanced German: Fragen der Identität
Languages

Advanced German: Fragen der Identität

...des Open University Kurses L333 German Studies über ihre Identität. Sehen Sie sich die beiden Videoclips an und notieren Sie Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Autorinnen. CHRISTINE PLEINES Hallo, mein Name ist Christine Pleines. Ich arbeite seit vielen Jahren bei der Open University und es macht mir immer viel Freude, bei der Entwicklung von unseren...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
European Championships 2020: Can one of the home nations end 55 years of hurt ?
Health, Sports & Psychology

European Championships 2020: Can one of the home nations end 55 years of hurt ?

...based partly on the home advantage of potentially six games at Wembley Stadium, and the range of attacking talent available in Phil Foden, Jack Grealish, Jadon Sancho and Mason Mount along with the more experienced Raheem Sterling and Marcus Rashford. They have the bookmaker’s favourite for the Golden Boot in Harry Kane and back up from Dominic Calvert-Lewis to...
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Article 10 mins
Consulting the oracle at Delphi
History & The Arts

Consulting the oracle at Delphi

...based on modern replica Browse the chapters in Book 7, where Herodotus tells us again of the oracle at Delphi. The context is the impending invasion of the Persians, and the Athenians want to know whether they should stand and fight or else flee the city (and, if the latter, then what should they do?) The oracle pulls no punches and predicts catastrophe for the Athenians,...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...based on bedrock below sea level and there are large parts of Antarctica where the bed is actually deepening upstream along the glaciers (blue areas in the interior of Fig. 1). What happens for the established MISI hypothesis is that if the transition from floating ice shelves to grounded ice sheets, called the grounding line, retreats for any reason then the ice at the...
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