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Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...resources Find out more about studying Sport and Fitness with The Open University. Delve into OpenLearn’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic/Paralympic hub, created with academics from the OU Sport team. The website of British Wheelchair Basketball has information on the sport and how to get started in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. For information on wheelchair rugby...
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World Space Week
Science, Maths & Technology

World Space Week

World Space Week is held every year between 4th-10th October - it is a celebration of science and technology. We've put together some fantastic free resources to mark this occasion.
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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...open up, to share painful or difficult experiences, while researchers get to keep their professional detachment, taking notes but never really exposing themselves to the same scrutiny, maintaining a ‘safe distance’ from that process. Autoethnography reverses this dynamic as it sees the researcher turn the ‘lens’ on themselves, recounting their own stories and...
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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...Open University. It has even given her ideas of ways of working and initiatives that could be implemented in her own team. Catherine’s volunteering doesn’t come with a significant time commitment; she estimates she spends a couple of hours every couple of months preparing for and attending meetings, with some additional activities on an ad hoc basis. The main...
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The history of Spanish in about six minutes
Languages

The history of Spanish in about six minutes

...resources Acknowledgements Beatriz Bond, Anna Comas-Quinn, Mercedes Cuenca Franco, Rocío Díaz Bravo, María Ángeles García Aranda, María José García Folgado, Gema B. Garrido Vílchez, Sara Gómez Seibane, Esteban T. Montoro del Arco, David Rodríguez Gómez, Santiago Sánchez Moreano and Maricela Taylor. Resources Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española:...
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Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 1: Talking about the time: Introduction - In this first week, you are going to learn and practise how to ask and say the time. This will involve using numbers as well as practising your speaking and listening skills. Before you start, you might want to revise...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...opens up conversations between readers about their views and values, lives and experiences, it enables us as humans to consider who we are, what we and others stand for and what we feel about personal, social and cultural issues. Such conversations cannot be left to chance. They are a crucial element in a rigorously planned and responsively executed reading for pleasure...
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Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs