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Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...learning, will identify and explore some of the key issues around learning and teaching in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your practice as a secondary teacher and develop a greater awareness of how students learn and how to take account of this in your planning and in your teaching...This free...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Learning to change
OpenLearn Ireland

Learning to change

...learning journey of three people who’ve changed their lives through learning, not only through formal education, but by a continuous process of lifelong learning. The four video tracks show you how to build on what you already know and how to use your skills and qualities to achieve change. They encourage you to consider the opportunities that are open to you and help...
Learning to Groove
History & The Arts

Learning to Groove

Learning to Groove tells the story of the Tomorrow’s Warriors band as its young musicians learn the art of jazz. Jason Toynbee, leader of the What Is Black British Jazz research project at The Open University explains how this informal type of music education is playing an important and alternative role. Jazz musician Gary Crosby and his partner Janine Irons share...
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...fiction is a free course that helps you to get started with your own fiction writing, focusing on the central skill of creating characters...This free course, Start writing fiction: characters and stories, helps you to get started with your own fiction writing. It provides a practical, hands-on approach, focusing on the central skill of creating characters. You will...
SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?
Education & Development

SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?

...learning difficulties and neurodiversity is to blame. However, the data tells us a different story; in fact, there is a problem with underdiagnosis instead. Is a diagnosis necessary? While a child in the UK doesn’t need a formal diagnosis to access support at school, identification still plays a significant role. A formal diagnosis can allow access to certain services...
Learning How To Learn: Words from the Wise
Education & Development

Learning How To Learn: Words from the Wise

...learning? Be inspired by some of the world's greatest writers, philosophers and leaders throughout history with these reflective quotes on learning and self-development. ...Learning is exciting but it’s also a challenge. In fact, if it wasn’t a challenge, it wouldn’t be exciting! And that challenge is added to if you’re learning at a distance, given that you need...
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...learning to teach, is the first of four courses which comprise the course Learning to teach. It draws on what we know about how people learn to become teachers. It explores the different approaches to teacher education and the different routes into teaching. It will help you to understand the philosophical and practical differences between the different approaches. It...
An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...fiction is on the rise. Bill Alder looks back and charts the history of this genre in post-1945 Europe. ...Find out about The Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. [An image of a top hat and phrase by Hercule Poirot]In 2020, crime fiction overtook general and children’s fiction to become the best-selling literary genre in Britain (The...