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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...et al., 2017) found that while engaging with children and young people might be difficult those difficulties should not be overstated. A crucial step for anyone working with children and young people is to go beyond standardised frameworks and recognise that each child has individual needs and comes from their own specific context with particular challenges. By taking...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...circulated in manuscript form, and a publication containing the method appeared in 1704. Leibniz then independently developed similar ideas, starting in about 1674. A manuscript that he wrote in 1675 includes the notation used in integral calculus to this day, as well as a standard rule for combining derivatives, the product rule. Leibniz’s notation for differential...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
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

...et al., 2013) compiled from different observations with labels of important locations. The proposed new mechanism is called Marine Ice Cliff Instability (MICI), not to be confused with the established Marine Ice Sheet Instability (MISI) which are both positive feedback loops (science slang for a self-sustained process: if the result is undesired, as in this case, you can...
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Article 10 mins
What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...et al., 2010). Definitions by therapists working on increasing psychological flexibility define it as, ‘the ability to fully contact the present moment and the thoughts and feelings it contains without needless defence ... persisting or changing behaviour in the pursuit of goals and values (Hayes et al., 2006, p. 9). We can think of psychological flexibility using the...
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Article 10 mins
Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...et cetera, which are encapsulated in the notion of geography - in a geographical imagination - which are then important to understanding environmental issues as geographically constituted. Michael: Okay. That’s great. And the idea then is that the development of that understanding progresses through the module via a number of key blocks. Could you just run through what...
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...et there...[Westminster freezing over] Brexit so far casts doubt on the functioning of the democratic parliamentary process and its ability to provide fair representation and protection of the interests of the British public. A central part in addressing this is the question whether the choice of parliamentary candidates and MPs is fit for purpose. Considering a trust...
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Article 10 mins
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...circulated. As the recent revelations show, in the age of the cell-phone camera and the flash drive, even the most draconian laws and reprisals will not prevent this information from leaking out. As a result, Washington faces what can be described as an accelerating hypocrisy collapse -- a dramatic narrowing of the country's room to maneuver between its stated aspirations...
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Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...circulation. The banner said that Oddfellows demanded security for their families and a place in society. They offered ritual, status and comradeship through collective self-help. By the early 20th century, fashions had changed. The Morning Leader newspaper was comparing such banners to the lighter and more imaginative ones carried by women campaigning for the vote:...
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