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What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...care first-hand (from an insider perspective), they are unlikely to know and properly understand the role and responsibilities and will draw from their (inaccurate) schema (from an outsider perspective). This means that they use false stereotypes to inform perceptions and decision-making. This cycle is perpetuated through false stereotypes of nursing seen in the media, by...
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What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...careful about what genre I’m investing in because that may have run dry. My job is where culture meets commerce and I’ve got to be on both sides. Publishing is not a publicly funded industry so it has no value to society other than its commercial success, so I don’t believe publishers who… who… who believe they’re doing things for the public good when...
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Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...adults or young people to tell you what ‘learning geography’ involves what do you think they would say? Many people see geography as a subject concerned with remembering the names of places and landforms, and learning about human and physical processes responsible for the world around us. There is a common perception that geographers learn ‘the facts’, present...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...care at all about the task and just want to get it over as soon as possible. Students and teaching staff who try to work it out and find a pattern always do worst,” he says. “It’s impossible in the time given to decipher the rules of the language and make sense of what’s being said to you. But your brain is primed to work it out subconsciously. That’s why, if...
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Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...adult lives working in some context or another, and our engagement with economic activity more generally is obvious (and not just as consumers). Many young people are also intimately tied up with work. School children often have part-time evening, weekend or holiday jobs of their own. They are all likely to spend some time on work-experience programmes. Their parents will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...adults more active. With the development of health and fitness-related apps, there is the potential that screen time will not necessarily always be sedentary. Box 1 What is Pokémon GO? [Described image] Figure 5 Pokémon GO Pokémon GO is built on Niantic’s Real World Gaming Platform. It uses real locations to encourage players to search far and wide in the real world...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...adult life. After joining the IRA he was imprisoned on a number of occasions, escaping twice. On his release in 1989 he joined Sinn Féin and became part of their negotiating team leading up to the Good Friday Agreement. Elected for the first time in 1996 he became an MLA in 1998. He has been in MLA since and between 2007 and 2011 was a Junior Minister. He is now Sinn...
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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...adult life whilst the real perpetrator walked free. Jerry Miller’s case was the 200th case the US Innocence Project successfully appealed using DNA evidence. Eye witness identifications played a role in 77% of these wrongful convictions." To find out more read the full article Misidentification: Can you identify the criminal? 2: You'll get called a 'blue flower' in...
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