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Spray diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Spray diagrams

...Working for Water Programme (WWP) case study... Diagram guidelines Purpose Tony Buzan originally developed spray diagrams in 1974 together with mind maps, which look similar (Buzan, 1974). Spray diagrams are a simple, fast technique for extracting the important ideas from a situation, conversation, presentation or written article and getting them down on paper in a way...
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Open Education Week 2017
Education & Development

Open Education Week 2017

...work courses aimed at those who need to enhance their work skills but can't commit to full-time study, and courses focusing on Skills for study, which help to refresh key study skills which might not have been used for a while. We're committed to providing learners with recognition for their learning. On all our free courses, we offer learners a free statement of...
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Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?
Society, Politics & Law

Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?

...work. With the demand for systems thinking growing, we are doing all we can to provide people with opportunities to learn about how it works and what it can do to help. We have created this hub as part of that response, to showcase some of the many teaching resources we have developed over the years. You can learn more about the history of systems thinking at The Open...
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Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds
Education & Development

Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds

...work: social pedagagy and the SPRinG project Professor Maurice Galton talks about the Social Pedagogic Research into Group Work or SPRinG project, designed to improve the effectiveness of pupil groups in classrooms. A SPRinG teacher's perspective Secondary science teacher Jane Brine talks about her involvement with the SPRinG project and the benefits is has brought for...
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Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...worked in partnership with IF: Milton Keynes International Festival to commission Australian theatre company Back to Back Theatre to bring its successful performance residency, The Democratic Set, to Milton Keynes. Back to Back Theatre worked collaboratively with local participants to create a film portrait of the city, which first screened at the Festival on 27 July...
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The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges
Society, Politics & Law

The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges

...works of the then dominant party in Scotland, Labour, by wresting control of Further Education away from local authorities. They did this by what was called ‘incorporation’ (a form of semi-privatisation in other words) – setting up each college as an autonomous entity run by Principals as private ‘fiefdoms’ aided and abetted by tame Boards of Management. Many of...
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How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...working as educators at a variety of levels. Badged courses have fulfilled a need for the recognition of informal learning achievements and remain some of the most popular content on OpenLearn. Of the 70+ badged courses, around 20 have been commissioned to support employability of informal learners and the OU’s own student body, including some of the so-called ‘soft...
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Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...working class political reform movement, carried banners on their mass marches, but sadly, there are no surviving examples. In the early twentieth century, women in the suffrage movement carried hand-crafted banners in demonstrations. Religious processions involving banners used to be common on important dates in the Christian calendar and some still take place nowadays....
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