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Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...think about the factors within each system. [This is a diagram with a set of circles inside one another. In the smallest, inner circle are the words ‘Child Microsystem’. In the next circle are the words ‘Family Mesosystem’. In the next circle are the words ‘Wider community Exosystem’ and in the largest, outer circle are the words ‘Society Macrosystem’.]...
EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ. See previous article in series: Writing up your dissertation Why give a presentation? Giving a presentation on the results of your work is a requirement for the EPQ. You are asked to: show evidence of how you approached and carried out...
Open Mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Open Mathematics

...systems are in place. The material forms part of the course MU120 Open Mathematics... Open Mathematics A short introduction to this album. Running Trains Safely Steam trains in the valley of the River Severn - ensuring the train service meets customer demand and ensures safety. Journeys as Graphs The timetable in action and the practical challenges a timetabler faces....
Supply chains: healthcare
Science, Maths & Technology

Supply chains: healthcare

...systems function smoothly? This album focuses on the different roles of B.Braun, a large supplier of medical equipment which also provides customised services for patients. In this time-critical setting, their supply chain processes must be organised with scrupulous efficiency. This material forms part of The Open University course T882 Supply chain innovation, strategy...
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...system draw together information from different sources and make logical deductions as a result demonstrate an understanding of how forensic scientists operate and use scientific evidence in a legal context...Forensic science and fingerprints: 1 Introduction to fingerprints - In this section you will learn the principles used in classifying and matching fingerprints...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...think about and study the social world’, is research paradigm. A paradigm involves a system of beliefs and practices that draw on theoretical assumptions and justifications. A research paradigm influences: what is considered problematic, i.e. what warrants researching; the types of questions that follow from this; the approach to generating data; the kind of data, and...
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...think of an example of a right for each of the three categories below: a freedom to do or be protected from something; a claim to do or enjoy something; a power to do something which affects others and not to be challenged over that use of power. Table 1 European Convention articles and corresponding rights ARTICLE OF ECHR RIGHT 2 Right to life 3 Right to be free from...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...think that Life on Earth, Trials of Life, those early series in the late seventies and early eighties, they actually linked, if you like, a great communicator with the natural world; for once you saw ants crawling up Attenborough’s legs, you had a sense of how big things were, how wondrous things were. And they were very informative for me and, I think, actually for the...