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Education & Development
Has media literacy become self-destructive?
Danah Boyd, founder of Data & Society, asks if American society has become too distrustful of experts
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Languages
Understanding language and learning
Learning is understood broadly as any kind of activity, whether in a formal or informal context, that enhances an individual’s knowledge or skills in one way or another. The relationship between language and learning is approached in three ways: learning a language, learning about language and learning through language. This free course, ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Workshops on gender diversity – helping us move from insults to inclusion.
How can we tackle the bullying of transgender youth in schools? Can workshops on gender diversity help?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
What is like being a social worker? Dr Andy Taylor of The Open University discusses effective practice with substance abusing parents.
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Nature & Environment
Earth In Vision: A Collection
The Earth in Vision project explores the BBC archives of environment themed television and radio programmes from the last 70 years, looking at the potential of these archives as a digital resource as well as to illustrate the potential of digital broadcast archives for researchers.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Challenge: Make paper and ink
Could our stricken scientists make their own paper and ink? It required undestanding of the processes involved.
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Education & Development
Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
The provision of a hot meal at lunchtime to pupils is often at the heart of political debate. We dip into some of the research around the subject.
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Education & Development
Moving education in Sri Lanka from equal access to full gender equality
Sri Lanka has been lauded for equal access to education for girls and boys, but textbooks and traditions continue to play a role in perpetuating inequitable gender norms and stereotypes.Thursica Kovinthan explains more.
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Education & Development
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
This is the fourth of four courses which comprise the course Learning to teach. Undertaking classroom research is seen as an effective form of CPD. This free course, An introduction to classroom research, provides a basic introduction to research design and illustrates two methodologies, case study and action research, by drawing on examples ...
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Society, Politics & Law
Timeline: Marx, Nietzsche and Freud
Explore the lives and works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud with our interactive timeline.
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Education & Development
Open Education Week 2017
Open Education Week, 27–31 March 2017, raises awareness of the global open education movement.
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Digital & Computing
Porn licensing isn't the answer
The UK government thinks children can be protected from web porn by building barriers. Good luck with that, says Andrew Smith.