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Education & Development
Danielle Martin
After realising the ‘traditional’ university experience wasn’t for her, and leaving education for a few years, Danielle discovered OpenLearn, through which she discovered a love of psychology, which ultimately led to her returning to education with The Open University. As she says, ‘I’ve become a lifelong learner!’
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Education & Development
Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
My recent research on Elective Home Educators (EHE) experience of exam cancellations revealed not only systematic and financial disadvantages for these EHE students but interestingly showed new insights into how they learn, approach and regard exams.
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Home education for children with special educational needs
As a specialist teacher and volunteer with a local autism charity, I had contact with families who had deregistered from school reluctantly, or who considered their children had been ‘off-rolled’.
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We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
There has been continuing annual growth in the number of children and young people being home-educated across the UK.
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Home education collection
This collection of articles is intended to support the educational and professional practices of groups of practitioners, learners, researchers, and policymakers who have a shared interest in the topic of home education, or elective home education within the UK and beyond.
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Transitioning from home education to employment
Understanding the experiences of previously home-educated adults.
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How home educators access exams
There are an estimated 80.000 children home-educated in England. No accurate data is available on how many of these children sit national examinations each year. However, a study during the Covid pandemic shed light on challenges when the exams were cancelled, and some significant inequalities came to light.
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A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents
As the population of home-educating families continues to grow, how can professionals improve how they work with parents who may have had a negative experience of previous local authority support?
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Using digital tools in teaching
Check out these short animations and accompanying articles on podcasting, social media, and virtual and augmented reality in pedagogy.
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Effective digital pedagogy: new ways of engaging students
As technology develops, the potential for further engaging students offers extremely exciting opportunities. This article explores three ways: quick response, augmented reality and virtual reality.
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The benefits of social media in academia
Discover how social media can be useful for academic professionals and students alike with this short animation and article.
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The how and why of podcasting: connection, creation and conversation!
Explore some of the key elements of podcasting and how these can help you to create podcasts that are relevant to your audience. One way of thinking about podcasts is to focus on the 3 Cs – connection, creation and conversation!