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Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...sustain relationships with their friends, family members, and support workers as they get older is also really important. The second key element is supporting people to age well. This is about supporting people with the physical, mental, social and emotional changes related to ageing. It's also about planning ahead. This means really thinking about what happens as people...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...sustain, repair and reproduce themselves. Given the undeveloped state of biological knowledge, it was not implausible to think that this amazing regenerative ability could not be the product of mere physical processes. In fact, of course, this was quite wrong. As biologists studied organic processes in more detail, they discovered that they were nothing more than complex...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...sustainable feedback practices?’, in: Gravett, K., Yakovchuk, N. and Kinchin, I. (eds) Enhancing Student-Centred Teaching in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Stacey, G., Aubeeluck, A. and Cook, G. (2018) ‘Resilience-based Clinical supervision; A course companion’, Kingsmead: Foundation of Nursing studies. Available at: https://www.fons.org/ resources/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...sustain us astonishingly well in times of need...What happens to you when you read?: Where next? - If you’ve enjoyed this course you can find more free resources and courses on OpenLearn. You may be particularly interested in these OpenLearn articles: Dr Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work ‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...sustainable architecture and an interview with the linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky. I also proofread texts translated by others working on the project. This was invaluable experience for a newly trained translator whose aim was to go straight into freelancing, particularly in terms of understanding the process (translation, self-checking/editing, revision by...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...sustainability and success of the business...Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis: 8.2 How to structure a paragraph - You’ll now listen to an explanation of the key factors that make the paragraph just examined so well structured. Activity 13 Watch the following video, and note down any points which you find particularly useful. Listen more than once if...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...sustain if they are to remain competitive. The MES varies with the particular technologies characteristic of different industries. For many parts of the clothing, footwear and furniture industries, all economies of scale may be exploited at relatively low levels of output and so the MES is low relative to market size. By contrast, in industries such as automobiles and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...sustainable in a way that isn’t sustainable when relying upon professionals. But I am also really interested in citizen science it’s a way that ordinary people, anyone, can be involved. Video 1 Why citizen science? JACK SEWELL: Hi I’m Jack Sewell, from the Marine Biological Association, and I’m involved in several citizen science projects, trying to get schools,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs