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Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...English secondary schools. Grant number: ES/V016989/1. The project was led by Professor Jacqueline Baxter, with thanks to Dr Katharine Jewitt, Research Associate, for her work on the course. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0...
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...everyday matters like transport and shopping in a rural area. Others involved the way she related to her husband and children as she started to develop a new sense of identity in her new home and community. We heard of the skills and knowledge she gained from her voluntary and then her employed work for Sure Start. Anne’s stories were of the experiences in which and...
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...English, written in 1874. First you will discover something about Hardy’s life, and the importance to his writing of the region he grew up in, the South-West of England. You will then read one short chapter from Far From the Madding Crowd and find out about how Hardy uses narration, style and dialogue to create characters and a fictional world that readers can believe...
Intermediate German: The world of work
Languages

Intermediate German: The world of work

...English are given at the start of each activity to make it easier to quickly complete the task. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L223 German studies 2: language and culture of the German-speaking world...Intermediate German: The world of work: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand...
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...English, the Scottish and so on, as well as people who were skilled workers, unskilled workers, people in very precarious forms of employment. And those divisions have always existed to be exploited and, from the 1980s onwards, many of those internal divisions widened for various reasons, not least because of deindustrialisation, consigning many traditional industrial...
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...English. Escucha y contesta. Now it’s time for another programme in our documentary series En portada. This one is about the market hall in Valencia, El Mercado Central, where the architecture, atmosphere and the quality of the fresh produce makes shopping there a unique experience. Presentadora Bienvenidos a En portada. En el programa de hoy vamos de compras al Mercado...
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...everyday life, but how do they work? Vaccination is a free course that will help those with a background in biology understand the historical development of vaccination, assess the various types of vaccines used today, examine their production and explore the limitations that are placed on vaccination programmes...Vaccinations are now considered a part of everyday life,...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...everyday lives. This free course, Introducing ICT systems, will explain what constitutes such a system and how ICT systems work. You will also look at how ICT systems convey, store and manipulate data, and how they process data. Finally you will learn how these systems are used...Information and communication technologies (ICTs) systems now dominate our everyday lives....
Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs