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Hip Hop and the Institution: Darren Abracadazra
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution: Darren Abracadazra

...Open University’s Hip Hop and the Institution conference. Here, he talks about his influences, poetry and ‘X Factor’... ...‘My name is Darren Paul and I've been performing poetry for around 4-5 years. I am a British-born Jamaican import with mixed ancestry that grew up in London before moving to Milton Keynes at a young age. My poetry is sometimes existential in...
Mental health: Survivor suggestions
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health: Survivor suggestions

...people with, but if something bothers you it is important I think mental health is all about life balance; which sounds easy but it's not always so easy to achieve This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage....
Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...resource. A slightly better option is to burn the plastic within a refuse-derived-fuel to recover the energy trapped within the materials, this is often the best option for highly contaminated plastics. A better solution to waste plastics, if simple reuse isn’t practical, is to recycle the plastic materials. This is often so-called materials recycling where the plastic...
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...resources. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Education, Childhood & Youth...Motivation and factors affecting motivation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define the term ‘motivation’ appreciate different views of how people are motivated apply different theories to an individual’s...
Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...educational under-achievement relative to girls, to an increasing growing awareness of the suicide rate and mental health problems among boys. Young men have tended to be characterised in media debate and public policy as ‘at risk’, in terms of their own physical and mental wellbeing, and as ‘risky’ in relation to others, in terms of youth crime and anti-social...
Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...Open University set out to explore how people make sense of and use this document in their practice. ...Supported by over 30 organisations, the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care framework was first released in 2015 and relaunched in 2021 for another five years. It outlines six ambitions, illustrated in the image, to improve the care of dying people. [Six...
Free online German courses
Education & Development

Free online German courses

Discover these free German courses on OpenLearn...[university ready - white back ] This resource is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage.
Free online Chinese courses
Education & Development

Free online Chinese courses

Discover these free Chinese courses on OpenLearn...[university ready - white back ] This resource is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage.