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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...Open University course S826 Introduction to mental health science (Stage 1 in the Masters in Mental Health Science), and is suitable preparatory reading if you are considering moving on to postgraduate study in this area. A number of related free courses are also available on OpenLearn. They are recommended to complement your studies, can serve as background reading,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...opens up the YouTube app to watch an episode of the colourful animation Billy Bam Bam. Halfway through, she moves onto a Yo Gabba Gabba! game, which involves anthropomorphised fruits making their way into a character’s belly. When Jessica’s mum, Sandy, tries to take away the iPad, there’s a tantrum that threatens to go nuclear: wobbly lip, tears, hands balled into...
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Article 5 mins
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...Open University digital badge. The badge is a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject. What you learn by completing the course will really help if you wish to enrol on a formal qualification. Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from your OpenLearn Profile. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn Statement of...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...source and influence, be it socio-cultural, political-legal, technological or economic. To respond to that need can often mean that disciplines from across the entire organisation or wider ‘system’ have to work together. Change often involves changing ways of working, policies, processes and procedures and adopting or developing new technology as well as delivering...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...Source: BIS, 2010, p. 5, Figure 1 Figure 2 Total household debt to income ratio, 1987–2009 (secured and unsecured debt) An important factor in this preparedness to take on debt was the level of ‘economic confidence’ from the mid 1990s to 2007. When people feel optimistic about the future – when there is the so-called ‘feel good’ factor about the economy –...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...for and against this idea. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A333 Key questions in philosophy...The moral equality of combatants: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the Jus ad Bellum / Jus in Bello distinction and be able to understand why it might need to be qualified understand and take a view on the idea of the moral equality ......
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Migration 2018: What's currently happening?
Society, Politics & Law

Migration 2018: What's currently happening?

...sources, some of which are unofficial. To learn more about how data on migrants’ deaths and disappearances are collected, click here. [Graphic supporting detail in the text] Download the Latest Mediterranean Update infographic here. For latest arrivals and fatalities in the Mediterranean, please visit: http://migration.iom.int/europe Learn more about the Missing...
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Article 5 mins
Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...source of multimodal examples, tied in very strongly to social and cultural identities. Supporting a football team is not only (if at all) about having an interest in sport. It is also a means of creating and expressing identity, forming connections, reinforcing a sense of belonging to a group and marking out differences from other groups. It can also, of course, be about...
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Article 10 mins