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Developing leadership in the voluntary sector
Education & Development

Developing leadership in the voluntary sector

...OU’s Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL) offers a fresh take on leadership in the voluntary sector, exploring everyday practices, and the actions and interactions that get things done...Find out about The Open University's Social Sciences courses To stay informed about the work of the CVSL, please sign up to our quarterly newsletter. Click on this link to...
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Misha Hebel On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Misha Hebel On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...OU with a BA(hons) in Design and Systems Thinking. This degree proved excellent training for a PhD at City, University of London using Systems Methodologies to explore value systems in performance measurement. Consequently I’ve been a user, researcher and teacher of systems thinking for many decades. I am fascinated by synergy and emergent properties and enjoy the...
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Free Activity Cards
Education & Development

Free Activity Cards

...Storytelling card (146 KB) Who am I? Understanding Children Learn with the Open University [PDF File] Download Who Am I? card (105KB) [PDF File] Download Understanding Children card (107KB) [PDF File] Download Learn With The OU (30KB) If you don't have Acrobat Reader you can download it by following this link: [get Acrobat Reader] download the free plug-in Acrobat Reader...
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Three Tort law cases you should know
Society, Politics & Law

Three Tort law cases you should know

...OU's Law qualifications. Monroe v Hopkins: The Tort of Defamation Can comments written on a social media site land an individual in trouble with the law? Discover how a series of tweets put Katie Hopkins in hot legal water... Transcript Thompson-Schwab and Another v Costaki and Another: The Tort of Private Nuisance If the enjoyment of your home is affected by a...
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There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!
Health, Sports & Psychology

There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!

...student sleeping ] A student asleep at his desk Sleep Deprived At about the same time the Munich study came out, Russell Foster at the University of Oxford made a key breakthrough in the neuroscience of time. By raising blind mice, Foster was able to show that all mammals’ sleep times depended on sunlight only. This means that biological time – which determines when...
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Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...students to become learners of English or people who can decipher the different varieties that are – that they are engaging with and accommodate those varieties, negotiate those varieties to outsiders so that we are not now thinking of variety X, variety Y etc. But developing in students a language awareness so that they know how varieties work or develop a social...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...become infected through a bite by a rabid wild animal or fellow canine; in turn, a bite from an infected dog is the most common method of human infection. The rabies virus attacks the nervous system and causes humans who are infected to hallucinate, become aggressive and even fear water. When someone is bitten, it’s crucial to wash the wound immediately and vaccinate...
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"I was so depressed yesterday..." - or were you?
Languages

"I was so depressed yesterday..." - or were you?

...becomes diluted and the word begins to denote a simpler, often fleeting, everyday emotion. The problem is that mental health disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and bi-polar disorder are not simple and fleeting and everyday. They are complex illnesses that require treatment. But when the technical terms for them begin to mean something everyday, it...
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