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Money & Business
MSE’s Academy of Money
The Open University has joined forces with MoneySavingExpert (MSE) to give you the skills and knowledge to master your finances. Packed with videos, audios, quizzes and activities the course covers all the key aspects of personal finance in six sessions of study that each take around two hours to complete.
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History & The Arts
Travelling Objects
Journey around the world in our interactive to discover how 'objects' aren't just merely beautiful art works but can also reveal fascinating histories and global connections.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Just about every parent will have googled this question at some time or another. But how do you know whether your child really is 'normal'? Here are five things to consider…
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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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Education & Development
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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Education & Development
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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Education & Development
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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Education & Development
Transitioning from home education to employment
Understanding the experiences of previously home-educated adults.
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Education & Development
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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Education & Development
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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Education & Development
Using digital tools in teaching
Check out these short animations and accompanying articles on podcasting, social media, and virtual and augmented reality in pedagogy.