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Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...creative solutions from people who can adapt. With the Open qualifications the sky is the limit. What will your Open qualification look like? Video 1: The Open qualifications Discussion This type of study enables students to draw on the skills, knowledge and expertise of different subjects and is said to be the future of learning. Being able to understand and analyse a...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...creative personal texts, composed of reflections on events or encounters that have captured the attention of the diarist. Both, however, are written near the time of the event they record. Conversely, autobiographies and memoirs are often written many years later and therefore bring the benefit (or not) of hindsight to the events recollected. Memoirs are a ‘subclass’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...creatively and in new ways about possible solutions, especially around difficult and contested issues. In planning an intervention diagramming also serves three more specific operational tasks: brainstorming, in which all ideas, concepts, issues, stakes, stakeholders, etc. relevant to an intervention are noted; analysis, where the relationships and links between the items...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...writing and listening. These activities form the foundation of learning and connect across all the wings DO: Encourages meaningful participation and decision-making at the child’s own pace, to build growing agency. DO enables children to learn actively by asking questions, working independently, helping others, and engaging in fun activities. These are supported by and...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course. Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...write down accounts of evolution that do not assume purpose or direction...Studying mammals: The insect hunters: 1 Meeting the insect eaters - As you work through this course you will come across boxes, like this one, which give you advice about the study skills that you will be developing as you progress through the course. To avoid breaking up the flow of the text, they...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...writing in a notebook or on your computer or tablet. There are free response box options inside some of the activities. Please note: anything you add into these boxes will be saved for you to return to, provided you are signed into OpenLearn and enrolled on the course. But the information saved is only accessible to you and cannot be viewed by anyone else. You can collate...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...writes rather cryptically: The logical negation of the world and the annihilation [of its value] results from our need to oppose Being to Non-being [the Nothing], and that the concept of ‘Becoming’ is denied. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Notebooks, 1887–88) It requires a lot of analysis and contextual knowledge to make explicit the argument that Nietzsche makes...
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