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Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...Introduction - In this free course, Accessibility and inclusion in digital health, you will consider some of the ways that people can access digital health in the UK and how they are able to take more control over their physical and mental health. However, for a number of reasons not everyone has access to digital health technology; for example, affordability, fear of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The Oldest Generation
Society, Politics & Law

The Oldest Generation

...Project 7 of Timescapes, the first major qualitative longitudinal study of older people to be funded in the UK. This audio recording samples parts of the diaries from members of The Oldest Generation project, who have been asked to document their day to day routines, with the aim of showing how major events affect the lives of the older generation... The Oldest Generation...
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Audio 18 mins
Adventure in the Amazon
Nature & Environment

Adventure in the Amazon

...Project COBRA The Open University is currently participating in Project COBRA, a research project which empowers local indigenous communities in the North Rupununi to promote their own community solutions to current and emerging challenges. Our aim is to promote local indigenous solutions to current and emerging challenges through the use of accessible information and...
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Activity 10 mins
About Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

About Stories of Change

...project aims to help to revive stalled public and political conversations about energy by looking in a fresh way at its past, present and future. These interviews have been recorded by the BBC’s Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin to capture the thinking of leading players in climate change and energy debates at a critical moment in the global conversation. Roger is one...
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Article 5 mins
Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?
Digital & Computing

Why has reaching the Chinese internet audience just got a little harder?

...Management Rules and posted a draft online on March 25 for a one-month consultation period. The new requirement stipulates that all websites hosted in China must register their domain names with authorized domestic domain name service providers in order to gain access to the Chinese network. [Headquarters of CNNIC, China's domain name registrar] The headquarters of CNNIC,...
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Article 5 mins
Environment: journeys through a changing world
Nature & Environment

Environment: journeys through a changing world

...introduction to this album Conservation for Whom? How locals and gorillas can inhabit the forest in harmony. Conservationists describe the down-side of the Fortress Conservation and the benefits of Integrated Conservation Development. Gorilla Tourism Adaptive Management. Conservation workers describe how revenue trickles down to communities via job creation, extra trade,...
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Audio 1 hr 1 min
Living in a globalised world
Society, Politics & Law

Living in a globalised world

...introduction to this album. Where worlds meet An insight into Mexican-American border control. A divided people A Mexican tribal leader talks about how the border has physically divided his tribe. Borders do move An insight into how the Mexican border with America has shifted over the years. The economic divide A presbyterian minister from Arizona talks about how an...
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Audio 1 hr 26 mins
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...project...How can you effectively influence decision makers to change laws, regulations or policies? How can your idea to improve an issue or problem be adopted by those in power? If you are involved in law reform or policy work, then this free course, Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work, is for you. Whether you are employed as a policy officer or carrying...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs