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How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...research in this area, start with the first activity. Activity 1: Emotion mapping Timing: 20 minutes Emotion mapping is a technique used in both therapy and research to understand how people relate to the places they live in. Have a go at producing an emotion map yourself following the instructions below. 1. Draw a simple map of your home. [Drawing of a floorplan of a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion
Money & Business

Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion

...research shows that inequalities in entrepreneurial activity are still striving and that often migrant enterprises are smaller, concentrated in medium to low growth sectors and receive less external funding than enterprises owned by white men. Such research findings should be treated cautiously as comparisons are influenced by factors inherently the specific population...
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Article 10 mins
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...research into the brain to new articles with mind-blowing facts, we've got a host of FREE brainy learning materials...Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. Here, on OpenLearn, we want to encourage you to learn more about the brain so we've collated a series of useful and interesting resources...
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Article 1 hr
Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...Centre for Atomic Research near Chennai in the south-east of the country. Special topic 2: Thorium The element thorium is a slightly radioactive, naturally occurring heavy metal with very few industrial uses. Thorium-rich material is accumulating in places where valuable rare earth metals are being extracted and processed. Rare earth elements are widely used in magnets...
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Article 10 mins
Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Education & Development

Has media literacy become self-destructive?

...research. I knew her school approached sex ed through an abstinence-only education approach, but I don’t remember how the topic of pregnancy came up. What I do remember is her telling me that she and her friends talked a lot about pregnancy and “diseases” she could get through sex. As I probed further, she matter-of-factly explained a variety of “facts” she had...
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Article 5 mins
Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two
Society, Politics & Law

Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two

...researchers investigating an archive collection of environmental programmes from across fifty years of the BBC’s broadcasting on environmental issues. In this two part podcast, join Joe on a journey through the archive as he explores how programmes have changed and how broadcasting has shaped how we think about environmental issues today. Visit the first article in this...
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Article 5 mins
The digital revolution for academic integrity has already begun
Education & Development

The digital revolution for academic integrity has already begun

...research findings of the e-authentication and authorship verification system for e-assessment TeSLA, which was used by seven institutions in Europe, including the Open University, to enhance academic integrity. I also present teaching staff and students’ views about the benefits of this novel system. [TeSLA system for Face Recognition] Figure 1 TeSLA system for Face...
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Article 5 mins
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...children to acquire certain amounts of ‘statutory’ know-how before leaving a particular key stage. Research also suggests, however, that in settings where creativity is valued, and where creative processes are themselves the subject of learning, teachers and learners begin collectively to share and develop purposes and activities commonly ascribed to ‘creative’...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs