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Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...trees: all can be used to organise thought. This free course, Extending and developing your thinking skills, will introduce you to a variety of thinking skills. Asking and answering questions is at the heart of high-quality thinking. Questions naturally arise from the desire to know and learn about things and may be the starting point for a journey of
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...family of nursing might be. This OpenLearn course is produced in association with Open University courses in Nursing and healthcare...So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the opportunities and key roles undertaken by nurses in the UK today summarise some of the key...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...families and among their peers, and may also become involved in armed conflict. The course considers in detail the daily experiences of violence which can have negative impacts on the physical or emotional health of children and moves from ideas about children and violence in very localized contexts – within families and with peers at school – through to the broader...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’
Society, Politics & Law

Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’

...families attacked by police as they rallied in support of a struggle for a Forty Hours Working Week. The centenary of this momentous occasion was marked by an Open University learning event on George Square on January 31, 1919, and the Glasgow May Day celebrations on May 6, 2019, also paid homage to the strikers and to the events of 1919. The period referred to as Red...
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Article 5 mins
New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place
Miscellaneous

New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place

...family. You can also get healthy by taking up more exercise; it doesn't have to be strenuous - a bit of a stretch every day or some gentle yoga. Take a look at the boxes below for some inspiration and learn about the importance of recovery and rest before and after exercise. Look at the stars! You might be confined to a small living space, so why not look to our enormous...
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Do children exercise less in winter?
Education & Development

Do children exercise less in winter?

...family income. The results of their study are published in the journal Medicine & Science in Exercise & Sport. The researchers found that physical activity was lower in autumn and winter compared to spring; average activity levels across the group peaked in April at 65.3 min/day and reached their lowest levels in February at 47.8 min/day. Physical activity was at its...
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Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin

...family members and lack of evening reading for myself. However, I have concluded that to have ‘a constant companion (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one’, an ‘object to be beloved and played with’ would be ‘better than a dog anyhow’ (from Darwin's journals, now held in the Darwin Archive in Cambridge University Library). So if you are...
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The City: The Roman and Greek Cities
History & The Arts

The City: The Roman and Greek Cities

...family was seen to be a natural institution, so larger groups of people create states in which laws and institutions of government promote the general good. More than this, however, Aristotle saw the polis, in essence the city, as the ideal model for the state and therefore as a natural entity with its roots in the mysterious world of human nature. When Greeks explored...
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