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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...sustained brand, a great deal of the precursor of Deadly as it is broadcast now, was archive. It was an idea saying we’ve got an amazing archive, we’ve got an amazing presenter, he can do one or two things for real, but actually, we’ll be showing all these animals and their behaviour from the archive. So it does a completely different job to its original purpose. So...
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Video 30 mins
Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...sustainable for a working environment so, she approached some community elders including Mama Edwards who was then the community development worker at the Family Advice Centre. After a series of meetings, it was agreed that a service known as a ‘befriending’ would be set up to support these teenage mothers. The intention was to organise them to support each other and...
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Article 15 mins
Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...sustainable growth require expertise from a range of subjects. Exploring everyday problems through the lens of different disciplines provides exciting opportunities to find ways in which subjects connect and influence each other. Flexible study has always been at the heart of the Open University. Our unique Open qualifications allow you to combine subjects and develop...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...sustainable over time: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials’, PeerJ,. 6, e4598...Supporting university students with a mental health condition: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Joan Simons. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...sustainable? - Are the recent increases in productivity sustainable? The answer to this question, and the crux of the debate concerning the effect of IT, centres on distinguishing whether recent increases in productivity are just cyclical, and hence temporary, or whether they are the beginning of a new and long-lasting trend. If the increase in productivity in the USA in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...sustaining others’ motivation...Session 1: What are the purposes of communication?: 4 Non-verbal communication in action - You may think that facial expressions – smiles, laughs, frowns – convey the way the speaker feels at that moment. You are indeed partly in control of feelings – or you can be, with practice. You may not be able to control your innermost...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...sustainable and they need to be available to consumers at a certain price. Nevertheless, this course suggests that design must be first and foremost people-centred. You might like to view these two short introductory video clips The first is Alison Black, (former) Head of Human Factors Design at the London office of the internationally renowned IDEO design consultancy....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...Sustainability, a ‘real-world problem’, is often seen as transdisciplinary because, for example, it needs scientific political, sociological, geographical knowledge to explore ways of resolving it. You will learn a little bit more about ‘real-world problems’ later in the course...Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits: 2 Which definition should I use? -...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs