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W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...researchers alike to look at his work across their curriculums and methodology discussions. Du Bois’s work offers great examples of how to represent reality (this is called mimesis); he used several different ways of doing this. He worked with statistics, and produced a major scientific study. He also found creative ways of representing statistical information in...
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Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...children as well. It’s something that I wouldn’t thought of if I hadn’t have come across that resource on TES. As a professional you’ve got to be time efficient and you’ve got to be a lifelong learner yourself as well. Part of this as a teacher is utilising the skills of other people. It can be done by observing more experienced teachers’, asking subject...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...children’s fiction to become the best-selling literary genre in Britain (The Guardian, 2020). In 2021, two novels from Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series occupied first and fourth place in the UK’s best-seller list (Good e-Reader, 2022). In France in 2018, almost one in five of all books sold was in the crime fiction category (BePolar, 2019). For a literary...
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Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...research on children in order to improve their lives. And I know the same thing can be said about women. Women are not just men with boobs and tubes. [LAUGHTER] But that they have their own anatomy and physiology that deserves to be studied with the same intensity. Let’s take the cardiovascular system, for example. This area in medicine has done the most to try to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Stories from our Black students
Money & Business

Stories from our Black students

...research project into Black students’ experiences on a peer mentoring scheme, we interviewed four first-year students. During these interviews, they talked broadly about the challenges they faced in balancing their lives and their study at The Open University...Listen to their inspiring stories below. In these, they share how having a long-term vision of achieving a...
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Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...children. Whereas large families with four or more children were common across Europe at the turn of the century, in the interwar years the presence of such families declined in western Europe (for example, the average number of children born per marriage in Germany dropped from 4.7 before 1905 to 2 in 1925–29), a trend that both intensified and spread to southern and...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
One minute methods - correlations
Health, Sports & Psychology

One minute methods - correlations

Discover how researchers use relationships between factors to understand child development...Transcript.
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Video 5 mins
Download your language survey kit
History & The Arts

Download your language survey kit

...research tool like this offers you the possibility of comparing your findings with those of other people at other times and places - a key feature in any large-scale research. It also helps you to keep focussed as you conduct the interview. Some people like to distribute the ‘spidergram’ in advance, so that all the interviewees have a chance to fill it in before the...
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