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How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...caring responsibilities. What do OpenLearners do with their digital badges? It is important to keep interrogating what our learners do with their digital badges if we are to meet them with good commissioning decisions and to support the digital skills shortage. Earlier this year, a review of 26,000 survey responses by OpenLearn badge earners showed us that 86% of them...
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World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen

...cared for the sick, studied their illnesses and wrote two books of medical and pharmaceutical advice. She composed extensive religious poems, music and a play. But her major works are books of theology, some of which are based upon her visions. Her surviving works also include more than a hundred letters to emperors and popes, bishops, nuns, and nobility, which reflect...
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Right to die: what about other circumstances?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Right to die: what about other circumstances?

...care nurse who had seen many people die, that she might experience an undignified death. Having decided that her life was complete, Gill Pharoah travelled to Switzerland in the summer of 2015. In this video her partner Johan Southall defends her decision. Should assisted suicide be available for people who aren’t terminally ill? Are there alternatives to assisted...
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Mental health: Survivor suggestions
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health: Survivor suggestions

...care not to let things get to me. I have to stop worrying and having negative thoughts. Here are some things that help me: Start the day thinking of all the positive things that may happen Get outside for at least 15 mins a day Put treats into your day: reading, watching a favourite TV programme Keep up with friends: find out how they are feeling, are they going through...
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Careers in Esports
Science, Maths & Technology

Careers in Esports

...care about, get curious, and look for ways to combine your interests with the skills the industry needs. Has your industry changed much in the last 5/10 years and if so, how? Transcript. What do you see as the future of your industry? Transcript. Esports is also being introduced in the Olympics, which shows how much potential there is. Find out more about EStars and The...
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Video 15 mins
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...adult. DNA has three key properties: it is relatively stable; its structure suggests an obvious way in which the molecule can be duplicated, or replicated; and it carries a store of vital information that is used in the cell to produce proteins. The first two properties of DNA are analysed in this free course, What is the genome made of?...Genomes are composed of DNA, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...adults that they meet. As we progress through the course you will have the opportunity to focus on settings with which you are familiar, as well as The Factory Project – just one example of the range of work with young people. The first part of the course outlines some features that we might use to describe the settings where work with young people takes place. This...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...adults. This has a lot to do with how many words are in a person’s vocabulary. One important aspect of verbal fluency is having a large vocabulary of words to draw on. But a large word store is not all that is involved; you also need to be able to search rapidly through your vocabulary, find a word that fits the task, speak it and then repeat this until you run out of...
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