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What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...think of many other examples of metal use. Each metal has its own personal signature and metals can be identified experimentally by being burnt in a naked flame. In this course you will start exploring some of the characteristic properties of metals that allow their varied uses in our everyday lives. You will also undertake an online experiment to identify metals using a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...think that’s pretty remarkable. The second project is called Earth in Vision and we are looking at 50 years of the BBC’s environment archive, trying to make sense of how we came to think this way about global environmental change issues and the role of broadcasting in that. And then there’s the Stories of Change project, where I’m working with a very large team of...
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Video 5 mins
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...systems have been developed and implemented explain why diagnostic systems are challenged in the mental health field...Making sense of mental health problems: 1 Assessing mental health problems - Figure 1 Ethan from the interactive ‘A Support Net’ which is associated with this OpenLearn course In this course you will be introduced to the case study of Mandy, and you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...think there are several answers to that. And the first one is a kind of old fashioned basic answer, so I’ll give you that one first. And that is that geography very much takes things in their historical and place specific context, and tries to understand what's going on; using the circumstances of the times and the events so that it’s possible to get some...
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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...think a bit more critically about the whole mindfulness movement after listening to a debate about how mindfulness is being applied in Western contexts. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD310 Counselling and forensic psychology: investigating crime and therapy. [Described image] Figure 1 ‘Seeing the light’ by Sue...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...think it is best seen as something systemic that happens around this period? TANYA BYRON If we look at a systemic model, what we are talking about is … the best way I describe it when I am teaching is just a series of sort of concentric circles. So you have the individual in the middle, and then you draw a circle around and sort of really symbolise their sort of TANYA...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...thinking about how to support primary-aged children’s learni\ng in science. Please note: while a range of science topics have been selected to illustrate how children’s learning can be supported, this course does not touch on experimental design, practicals or inquiry-based learning...Primary science: supporting children’s learning: 1.1 Attitudes to science -...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Business problem solving and improvement
Science, Maths & Technology

Business problem solving and improvement

...system attractive to use. Scottish Power: Introducing Six Sigma A look at the how Scottish Power used the six sigma methodology in order to solve issues of business decline brought on by the deregulation of electricity and gas. Scottish Power: Applying Six Sigma A look at how Scottish Power used Six Sigma to streamline and improve their customer correspondence process....
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Audio 25 mins