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A few openlearn Health and Lifestyle Units

Mental health practice: Bonnyrigg (K113_2)

Funding elite sport (E112_1)

Although society's attitude toward mental illness has improved, discrimination and misconceptions surrounding those affected are still prevalent. This unit explores a number of issues relating to mental health practice, including the difference ...Although society's attitude toward mental illness has improved, discrimination and misconceptions surrounding those affected are still prevalent. This unit explores a number of issues relating to mental health practice, including the difference between mental health and mental illness, and the discrimination that can arise when people experience some form of mental distress.Time: 10 hours Level: IntroductoryTopic: Health and Lifestyle Last Modified: July 3rd 2008 Join this unit | Browse - Tell me more about the Join this unit option.

Improving aerobic fitness (E112_2)

Training and preparing to compete as an elite athlete can take significant financial support. Where does the money to support such athletes in the UK come from? This unit will examine the question of funding in UK elite sport.Time: 2 hours Level: IntroductoryTopic: Health and Lifestyle Last Modified: July 2nd 2008 Join this unit | Browse - Tell me more about the Join this unit option.

Alcohol and human health (SDK125_2)

Aerobic fitness is integral to successful sports performance and to maintaining good health. But what sort of exercise should you be doing to develop your aerobic fitness? This unit will help you to answer this question by introducing you to ...Aerobic fitness is integral to successful sports performance and to maintaining good health. But what sort of exercise should you be doing to develop your aerobic fitness? This unit will help you to answer this question by introducing you to principles of aerobic exercise prescription.Time: 2 hours Level: IntroductoryTopic: Health and Lifestyle Last Modified: June 20th 2008 Join this unit | Browse - Tell me more about the Join this unit option.

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Welcome to the open education Ning network! The openlearn project makes material taken from Open University courses available to all for free under a Creative Commons licence. Our home page is here.

On this page I discuss various issues we encounter around open educational resources, Creative Commons licences, web 2.0 technologies etc. More details on these can be found on our blog.

Really though I want to hear your thoughts on all of this! What are you doing in these areas? What are the issues you face? How might our and others' open educational resources be useful to you?

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Policy Futures in Education # 1 2008

Netzine Policy Futures in Education has a special issue on Digital Libraries.
You can read the abstratcts for free but have to subscribe to read full text.

Posted by Peter Alsbjer on January 15th, 2008 at 1:42pm — No Comments (Add)

Help Spread the Word- K12Online07

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Time for a new blog meme to help us spread the word about the upcoming K12Online07 conference. Please share either three (3) reasons to participate based on your experience from last year or (if you didn't attend last year) three (3) things you hope to gain from the experience this year.

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Posted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on September 27th, 2007 at 1:28am — No Comments (Add)

New thesis on children's strategies on the web

In a new thesis, "Bridging the distance: children’s strategies on the internet" Elza Dunkels of Swedish Umea University discusses the use of the Internet of young people.
Her conclusion is that children’s views of the Internet differ from the media related adult view. The children in this study are aware of, and can describe many downsides of the web, but these are not present in their everyday use of the Internet. Many children have well-developed cou

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Posted by Peter Alsbjer on September 21st, 2007 at 9:51am — No Comments (Add)

Call for participation in online experiment in open educational resources

Do you have an interest in mathematics education?

Do you support open access and reuse of educational materials?

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Posted by Turadg Aleahmad on August 23rd, 2007 at 9:20pm — No Comments (Add)

What is OpenLearn...

…and who are OpenLearners? It’s a question that’s been in my head for quite a while now.

Each week I run the stats which show how many people have visited the site overall, and how many have visited LabSpace and LearningSpace in particular. We report how many people have registered on OpenLearn, and how many people who have visited the site have registered on an OU course in the same session. We keep track on the top ten units, dwell time, page views…

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