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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
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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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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
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...adults (mainly pregnant women attending for antenatal care) and there is a delivery couch in a side room. However, around 90% of rural women choose to give birth in their own homes with a Health Extension Worker present or a traditional birth attendant. Postnatal sepsis and haemorrhage are the main reasons for the high mortality rate: remember it was 4.4 maternal deaths...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...care for children and adults with additional needs, including the support given to overcome challenges to daily living. Typed answer Considering ethics and child protection and GDPR issues: the learner could create a five-minute digital story that explains how they witnessed and understood these ideas in their work experience. The learners create an instructive PowerPoint...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...care needs. Even if your planned retirement date is several years away, for now estimate your spending based on current prices. State pensions are increased each year to allow for inflation and other pensions are also, usually at least partially, ‘inflation-proofed’ by annual increases. When you have assessed your spending, add on 5 per cent to the total. At all...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?

...adults, these super abilities stimulate our childhood fantasies and allow us to suspend reality for brief periods of time. Whilst many of us have our favourite superhero, and have an opinion on the best film, it has been widely recognised that every superhero falls into one of Marvel’s five categories: altered humans (e.g.,Spiderman) high tech wonders (e.g. Ironman),...
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