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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...
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EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...educators and policy-makers...Frameworks are intended to offer guidance, but they can also become perplexing. When it comes to frameworks for evaluating the quality of educational technology (EdTech), the proliferation of evaluation frameworks has led to uncertainty among educators and decision-makers. Which evaluation framework holds validity and which one should be...
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The Anniversary of D-Day
Miscellaneous

The Anniversary of D-Day

On the 6th June 1944 the Allied invasion of Normandy began. This year marks the 80th Anniversary of 'D-Day' so we've put together a great range of resources on the Second World War...To mark the anniversary, we've compiled some of our Second World War resources...
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Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...resource and knowledge, and social and political change. Change happens for many reasons. It can be gradual developmental change to make improvements to skills, technology or processes that already exist, or it can be transformational where the change is dramatic and is characterised by a radical change to things like the mission, culture, leadership and structure of an...
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Olympic and Paralympic Games, Paris 2024
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympic and Paralympic Games, Paris 2024

Paris is the host of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Explore our related free resources...The 2024 Summer Olympics, held in Paris, will run from 26 July until 11 August. The Paralympics will then follow from 28 August until 8 September. Explore our related resources below.
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Three solutions for the nursing staffing crisis in the NHS
Health, Sports & Psychology

Three solutions for the nursing staffing crisis in the NHS

...Open University, is a nurse with more than forty years NHS and educational experiences linked to the education of nurses, looks at the staffing challenges facing the NHS, and some of the solutions...It's no secret that our hospitals are short of staff and do not have enough equipment or sufficient room in the United Kingdom. No single ‘magic formula’ will address all...
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National Novel Writing Month
History & The Arts

National Novel Writing Month

...Open University's Creative Writing courses. Join writers all over the world as they write 50k words in a month as part of National Novel Writing Month. Here are our top tips and tricks to get a head start. 1. Just do it The best way to combat any procrastination is to just do it. No excuses, no tomorrows and no negotiations, as the perfect time, will never come. Start by...
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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs