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Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...adapted extract from the Open University course DD317 Advancing social psychology...Social psychology and politics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand why social psychologists are interested in politics understand the role of personality, groups and sociocultural context in political action understand what is meant by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...adapted extract from the Open University course A342 Central questions in the study of music...Music and its media: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge of the main ways in which music is transmitted understand how the means of communicating a particular piece can change over time examine examples of musical media...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...adapted extract from the Open University course U214 Worlds of English...English in the world today: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the diversity of English through history and around the world understand the effect of social and cultural factors on an individual’s use of English understand the relationship between a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?
Nature & Environment

What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?

...adapt our beliefs rather than ouractions, to make us feel better about ourselves. We re-align what we think with what we do, not the other way round. One way out of this depressing impasse of good intentions and no behavioural change is presented by windows of opportunity which arise when important changes in the life-course come along. Research by Ver Planken and others...
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Article 5 mins
The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
History & The Arts

The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

...adapted for BBC/HBO television by Tom Stoppard in 2012, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall. The original work was published in four separate novels between 1924 and 1928: Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up- and Last Post. (Some Do Not… anticipating by some years what became known as the ‘war book boom’ in 1929, when Erich Maria...
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Article 15 mins
OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...adapt to online learning and get the most from ODS courses. As a result, OpenLearn is now also supporting the UK Kickstart Scheme with content for candidates and employers. Health and social care workers As the Coronavirus pandemic took hold, NHS and local authority leaders through the UK called on hundreds of thousands of former health and social care workers to return...
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Article 10 mins
Brexit and health care professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and health care professionals

...adapt. However, greater divergence will increase the amount of re-education and training that will need to take place if health care professionals move between countries. Regulation of health care professionals Fitness to practise The health care professional regulatory bodies such as the General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Health and Care...
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Article 10 mins
Number theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Number theory

...adapted extracts from the Open University course M303 Further pure mathematics. If you are interested in applied mathematics, you might like to study the free OpenLearn courses Introduction to the calculus of variations, Linear programming – the basic ideas and Kinematics of fluids. If you are interested in statistics, you might like to study the free OpenLearn courses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs