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OpenLearn choices for YASS students
Health, Sports & Psychology

OpenLearn choices for YASS students

...resources for your module, including your assessment questions, module forums, and tutorials. OpenLearn: This is the Open University’s free learning platform. OpenLearn is open to everyone and provides hundreds of free learning resources and short courses, many of which are based on Open University modules. It’s through the OpenLearn website that you will choose the...
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Management and the unconscious mind
Money & Business

Management and the unconscious mind

...human brain is an incredibly complex machine which constantly processes vast amounts of data many of us are oblivious to as we go about our lives, but can the information contained within the unconscious mind aid managers within the work place? In the following audio discussion Guy Claxton, a psychologist from the University of Bristol argues that the parts of the psyche...
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Repatriation and returning remains
History & The Arts

Repatriation and returning remains

...of things: an introduction to material culture... Encountering a body Nigel Warburton discusses two different cases regarding the issue of consent when displaying human remains. Torres Strait remains The Natural History Museum in London gave back 138 ancestral remains to the Torres Strait islands. Objections to Repatriation Tiffany Jenkins argues against repatriation...
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The insecurity of security
Society, Politics & Law

The insecurity of security

...checkpoints and walls that control movement of Palestinians between Israel and the West Bank is to prevent terrorists from entering Israeli cities. This podcast explores their affect on the daily lives of people, and the dilemma facing the women of Machsom Watch, as their actions, which make the process more humane, contradict their political opposition to its existence....
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Video 15 mins
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...human progress being central to the Enlightenment of the 18th Century, this did not lead to the theory of evolution. Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis proposed the spontaneous generation and extinction of organisms as part of his theory of origins. However, he advanced no theory of evolution. Georges-Louis Leclerc, a prominent naturalist of the time, explicitly...
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Article 30 mins
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Languages

How to learn a language

...resources and create a virtual immersion environment...Interested in learning a second language but don't know where to start? Learn about the concepts and skills required to learn languages successfully in this free course, How to learn a language. This course will introduce you to the skills and strategies you need for language learning. You will be encouraged to set...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...Additional resources Equalities and Human Rights Commission, publications on Equality Law and Education Joseph Rowntree Foundation research on ethnicity Runnymede Trust Steele, C. (2010) Whistling Vivaldi: how stereotypes affect us and what we can do. New York: W.W. Norton. Tomlinson, S. (2019) Education and Race from Empire to Brexit. Bristol: Policy Press....
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James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...humanity. There are very few places on this planet where there isn’t some sort of balance now between nature and mankind, and to not reflect that would be to not reveal the whole truth. When have you introduced environmental issues into a blue-chip series? I think above all else we need to be true to nature, and to be true to nature you need to give the context as it...
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