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Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...systems in the UK and opportunities for learning and teaching beyond the school gates...Supporting children’s learning in primary education today: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the different aims of primary education today articulate different ways in which learners are supported in primary school demonstrate an...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
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
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
How do you know you are in a smart city?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you know you are in a smart city?

Integrated urban technology is less apparent when it is functioning well says, Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford...Recorded at The Open University for BBC Radio 4's sociological discussion programme, Thinking Allowed. Transcript
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Video 5 mins
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...think human language and the call system of the vervet monkey might differ. Keep this list with you and compare it with the differences mentioned in the text as you go through the first half of this course. This course is in two parts. In the first half (Section 2), we will investigate the nature and structure of human language, keeping our vervet monkey example on hand...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 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
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...thinking about lifestyle and obesity in Activity 1 (i.e. the question ‘Is being overweight related to a person’s lifestyle?’), you might have realised that when considered from the perspective of health and wellbeing the concept is far more complex. In addition, lifestyles go beyond the individual level (Jensen, 2007); for instance, they can be conceived at a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...thinking, reasoning and knowing – in short, they have the capacity for rational thought and action. But just which animals fall into the category of sapience is a vexing question. Certainly human animals are sapient – we dignify our species with the name Homo sapiens, after all. But is anything else sapient? What about birds, dogs, apes and dolphins? There seems...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs