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Do Something Great
Nature & Environment

Do Something Great

...community and explore volunteering...[D Something Great logo] Looking to get into volunteering? This Spring and Summer the BBC is launching its Do Something Great season. The season aims to get people to pledge their time towards volunteering and start making a difference. To complement Do Something Great OpenLearn has curated a variety of free learning tools including...
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Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...developing field (see special issues in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, the Journal of Community & Applied and Social Psychology and the recent Social psychology of citizenship event at the OU), but it is quickly gathering pace, I would argue, because of its ability to shed light to the ways in which the political and the everyday are inherently entangled....
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Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...communication and practice, can seem daunting, especially outside traditional classrooms. In the academic year 2017/18 the award-winning ‘Flipping German’ project set out to explore how the flipped classroom methodology, that shifts the responsibility for learning strategies and, ultimately, the content of learning to the learner, can be applied to language modules at...
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What are the benefits of creative play at home?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of creative play at home?

...communication with others involved in their play and negotiating skills to enable their creative vision. Creative connections are made while children play, stimulating opportunities for self-expression and building social relationships. Being creative is about exploring, not being afraid to make mistakes and using ideas and resources in new ways. This not only supports...
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Dominic Ball testimonial
Education & Development

Dominic Ball testimonial

...community, so I struggled for the first half of a six-year course. In one assignment I received 14 out 100 which made me think, I need to understand where I’m going wrong. [PFA and OU logos] Achieving his goals "I started to engage with my tutors and other students, it made the experience more enjoyable. In my last year, I finally understood how to structure my essays...
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CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)
History & The Arts

CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne)

...community breakdown, just as European governments were preparing to build tower blocks in their ruined cities. The last CIAM meeting was held in 1956. By the mid-1950s it was clear that the official acceptance of Modernism was stronger than ever, and yet the concerns voiced by the Smithsons and their allies that the movement was in danger of creating an urban landscape...
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Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...communication, Summarising text, The African diaspora, The American Civil Rights Movement, Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution, English in the world today, Simone de Beauvoir and the Feminist Revolution, Introducing philosophy and she's currently working on Exploring languages and cultures... as she said, there’s been plenty and quite a variety too. ‘The great...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...community. Customer service can be a key but often underused method for helping companies realize social responsibility goals. Specifically, organizations can use customer relations management to respond to ethical consumer demands – such as in the case of calls for fair trade. Alternatively, they can use their influence to help promote more ethical customer behaviour....
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