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Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology

...Care courses and qualifications. In this series of videos, people with learning disabilities and their support workers share their experiences of providing and receiving support to use everyday technologies. This includes tablets and mobile phones to access applications such as the YouTube and Zoom. The interviewees highlight the importance of person-centred support that...
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...adults (such as parents and teachers) should engage with and manage children’s interactions with technology...This free course, Children’s experiences with digital technologies, is an introduction to how children use digital technologies, such as mobile applications, digital games and computers, and what they learn from these experiences. The course draws on debates...
Five things to know about being disabled and LGBTQ
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things to know about being disabled and LGBTQ

...adults we are. Even when people accept that we might want to date, the assumption is that we’d be straight. In fact, there are lots of disabled lesbian, gay, bi and queer (LGBQ) people out there, and we find partners and love the same way everyone else does. 2: Other people’s responses are not your responsibility [band at disability pride] When, or if, you decide to...
The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators
Nature & Environment

The Hunt: a natural history series that challenges us to side with the predators

...adult wolves and two small cubs, with all of the adults howling with one of the two cubs. The other cub is leaning into it's parent wolf. ] Arctic wolves have lots of stamina as there isn’t much food around. © Silverback Films Both predators and prey are caught up in an “evolutionary arms race” where over time predators evolve traits that make them better hunters...
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...care Political impact: Voting patterns, Political representation The elderly bring: Inspiration – values, Work ethic – culture, Leadership – tradition, Wisdom – legacy But with age comes: Health concerns, Vulnerability, Uncertainty But with less money how can countries afford looking after the elderly and how will we afford to look after our own health, our...
Hard Choices: How Would You React?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hard Choices: How Would You React?

...care when there was friction with the relative who gave her a room in her house. At present Kelly is living in an inner city children’s home where she has a good relationship with staff. She has more difficulty building relationships with young people. Kelly has known her boyfriend Danny for a year and he is keen to be a father. Danny is sixteen, an only child, and...
'Good' food destroying biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

'Good' food destroying biodiversity?

...care? Biodiversity, for example the diversity of life in our planet has a number of important roles for its inhabitants. This could be through direct provision of resource materials as well as through ecosystem services, which are often mediated by different forms of life. Ecosystem services could include support and regulation of environmental processes eg, nutrient...
Supporting student-led research
Education & Development

Supporting student-led research

...and interpretation of your findings. Be ethical: Give due care and attention to the impact or possible harm that your enquiry may have upon the environment and the people in it. OU Researchers Dr Trevor Collins Dr Victoria Cooper Dr Chris Gomez Partners The Field Studies Council Sam Rudd Simon Norman Janine Maddison David Morgan The Geography Association Rebecca Kitchen...