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Being Sustainable(ish)
Nature & Environment

Being Sustainable(ish)

...manageable in their lives to help the environment. Jen's inspiring session is all about ‘progress not perfection’ – the idea being that a lot of people making a manageable change and doing them well, has greater impact than a few people doing them perfectly. Jen's own words: 'We're often short on time, energy, and sometimes sanity, and to top it off eco-anxiety is...
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Video 40 mins
Sustainability
Education & Development

Sustainability

...Manager...I work as a Senior Manager in the Access, Open and Cross-curricular Innovation team. The reason why I really like YXM130 is the flexibility, allowing you to study what interests you from a wide range of subject areas. I have always been a keen environmentalist and been fortunate to support and work alongside the OU academics who author the Environment...
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Article 5 mins
Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...introduction of border controls by EU member states should have no bearing on those crossing borders to seek asylum. Under the 1951 Refugee Convention, set up in response to the tragedy of the Holocaust, member states have an obligation to assess all asylum claims on their territory. Anyone seeking asylum is entitled to do so under international law. But there’s a...
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Article 5 mins
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...Introduction - Making the decision to become a teacher can be a life-changing moment for many people. For some, they will have known for a long time that this was the career they wished to follow. For others, it may be a rather more dramatic change of direction. What may not be apparent at that early stage, is the challenge of choosing a route into teaching from the...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...Introduction - [Image of men and women helping each other to climb over a mud barrier in a challenge race] A Japanese proverb ‘Fall seven times, stand up eight’ effectively captures the essence of psychological resilience. We know that athletes will face highs and lows and will constantly withstand a wide range of pressures to attain and sustain high performance...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...manager interested in developing a better team, as you will hear from the audio below (a transcript is also provided). Meetings often descend into all-out war! We never seem to get anywhere with everyone at each other’s throats. I can hold my own in that kind of contest; I sometimes come out on top – winning the argument – but it doesn’t calm things; I leave the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare

...introduction of stupid duets & songs. Healy, &c, were very good. Mendelssohn's beautiful Overture was played at the beginning. We saw the Introduction to the Pantomime & there came home. Friday 4th February 1853 We went over to the Rubens Room, after 8, & Shakespeare's splendid Tragedy of "Macbeth" was extremely well given. The scenery, including the Cave or Cawdor scene...
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Article 5 mins
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...Introduction to Tinkercad and Basic electronics Introduction to Arduino Making things Glow Sensing things Making things move Novel Engineering l Novel Engineering ll Novel Engineering lll Adarsha Kanya Niketan Higher Secondary School Design, how to design, and Inkscape Greeting card design in Inkscape and use Cricut machine to fabricate Use of Digital Embroidery Machine...
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Article 5 mins