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Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...care of their loved ones. The Parks Trust and The Open University have already produced several OpenLearn articles about Walking the Parks, walking outdoors and staying mindful, the benefits of walking and talking, impact of walking and socialising through the Five Ways Café, and another article about why and how walking outdoors is beneficial in preventing the fast...
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Article 10 hrs 34 mins
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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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...
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Article 10 mins
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...
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Article 10 mins
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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...adult’s eye, some picture books may seem remarkably simple, even oversimplified. However, in this free course, Exploring books for children: words and pictures, you will learn how children’s books use words and pictures together in remarkably sophisticated ways to communicate both to young and older readers, drawing on examples from the classics, such as Beatrix...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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...
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Activity 5 mins
'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...
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Article 5 mins