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Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...thinking style’ and identify implications for everyday life appreciate key ideas about brain and nervous system function in autism appreciate the complex role of genetic influences in autism...Week 4: Explaining autism: mind and brain: 1 The psychology of autism: explaining social characteristics - Psychological theories of autism seek to explain the characteristic...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Discuss: Does work define your class position?
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Does work define your class position?

...think about work and the working class? Fill in our short survey and share your thoughts and memories...[John Woods of Tower Colliery] It is said that work defines the working class. In fact, according to Karl Marx’s classic analysis it is only through work that we can understand society, with its division between the working class and the capitalist class. The former...
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Activity 10 mins
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...think carefully about these. Comment To count the data in each category you could use a tally system. You may be familiar with tallying as representing sets of 5, with 4 slashes and a diagonal line across these, making what looks like a gate. This is known as a tally. Answer The final table should look something like this. It is fine if you have put the rows and columns...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Sir David Attenborough and The Open University
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough and The Open University

...thinks we are headed Transcript David Attenborough When I took over BBC2 I had the responsibility of turning Jennie Lee’s concept into practicality and working with The Open University as it was established, and looking back on it now the insuperable, the major problems that worried us all the time have simply evaporated, they don’t exist anymore. For example, The...
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Video 10 mins
Recycling and Waste
Nature & Environment

Recycling and Waste

How much do you think about what you throw away? Do you know what happens to the things you chuck out? Find out more about waste and recycling with our FREE resources:
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Activity 30 mins
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...thinking about assessment. Reflection point Consider what progress in mathematics means to you. Does it mean answering questions on harder concepts? Or does it mean answering more complex questions? Are you better at mathematics because you can complete lots of questions that are all the same, or because you can persevere with a problem and suggest different ways of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...think about your role in relation to this research. In this case, you can call yourself a ‘practitioner-researcher’, due to the fact that you are working within the organisational context in which you would like to make a change. Different types of practitioner-researcher can be categorised according to their relationship with the location or context of their project...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...thinking about entrepreneurship: what it is, how it works and why it is worth exploring. Figure 1 People have a tendency to stereotype entrepreneurs There is a widespread tendency to stereotype entrepreneurs and, as a consequence, to over-simplify a far more complex phenomenon. For example, some people see commercial entrepreneurs as a wholly positive force in society,...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs