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The Women and Scottish Railway History Collection
Society, Politics & Law

The Women and Scottish Railway History Collection

...resource to celebrate the achievements and struggles of women members working within the rail industry in Scotland, for the period starting around 1900 until the present day. The role of women in Scottish Trade Unions, and in the wider Scottish Labour Movement since the mid to late 19th Century, has been under-researched in important respects. While important work has...
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Article 5 mins
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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Article 10 mins
Festival fever
History & The Arts

Festival fever

...Choose from the following: comedy plays poetry performance music festivals Make 'em laugh - learn more about comedy Unleash your inner playwright with these resources Become a wordsmith with these learning tools on poetry Make your performance perfect with these materials Discover music theory with these articles and course What's great about festivals? Find out here...
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Article 30 mins
Making your learning count – Example study pathways (YXM130)
Education & Development

Making your learning count – Example study pathways (YXM130)

...Resources available. Just click on an example to see what courses each individual would choose to study! If you are a Young Applicant in Schools Scheme (YASS) Scotland student, there is further information about YXM130 available for you here: OpenLearn choices for YASS students - OpenLearn - Open University. Remember, it is entirely up to you what you study! You just need...
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Article 5 mins
Children and the Internet
Health, Sports & Psychology

Children and the Internet

...resource with numerous benefits come concerns about its long term effects on child psychology... How children use the internet Professor Sonia Livingstone discusses why she was drawn to this area of research Percieved dangers Professor Sonia Livingstone explains the risks of unregulated access to information from net Regulation and benefits Professor Sonia Livingstone...
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Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...Humanities...Minds and mental phenomena: An introduction: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: discuss basic philosophical questions concerning the mind understand problems concerning the mind and mental phenomena and discuss them in a philosophical way...Minds and mental phenomena: An introduction: 1 The quick and the dead – the minded...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...human life; more precisely, the oxygen in air is essential for life. A human breathes in approximately 11 000 litres of air every day. But how is that oxygen transported into and around our blood systems and stored in the parts of our body that need it to function? And are humans different to other organisms in how we use oxygen? [computer graphic of red and white blood...
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You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...resources in this course encourage you to use your curiosity and imagination to question and explore the challenges and possibilities of societies, social life and of the social sciences themselves. At the end of the course, you will have an appreciation for what different social science perspectives bring to understanding the world. You will also have enhanced your...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs