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What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?
Education & Development

What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?

...students pictured at desks. One student is a wheelchair user.] UNICEF (n.d.) defines inclusive education as ‘all children in the same classrooms, in the same schools’. But is being present in the same place enough? Or might true inclusion also relate to whether learners have equitable access to learning opportunities when in the classroom, or if they are learning...
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Modelling events in time
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling events in time

...Students are expected to be familiar with basic probability, random variables and expectation and the Poisson process. Modelling events in time consists of material from M343 Book 2, Modelling events in time and space, and has six sections in total. You should set aside about two to three hours to study each of the sections; the whole extract should take about 16 hours to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...students? This free course provides information about how innovative assessment can be used to help learners achieve learning outcomes. The course explores the purpose and usefulness of a constructively aligned curriculum and a competency aligned curriculum and the benefits of both. As the course progresses, you will also explore the barriers and enablers to innovative...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief

...becoming a widow and about her thought-provoking insight into her journey from care giver to a self-published author...Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Becoming a widow When my husband Alan was dying, one of the thoughts that haunted me every day I cared for him was: soon I would become a widow. I was 60 and Alan was...
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The Life of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Life of Socrates

...student and would teach Aristotle who would then tutor Alexander the Great. By this progression, Greek philosophy, as first developed by Socrates, was spread throughout the known world during Alexander's conquests. Socrates was born c. 469/470 BCE to the sculptor Sophronicus and the mid-wife Phaenarete. He studied music, gymnastics, and grammar in his youth (the common...
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Live long and prosper?
Science, Maths & Technology

Live long and prosper?

...become more sensitive to detecting smaller planets in wider orbits around their stars, it’s become clear that small, rocky planets are probably very common indeed. It’s been estimated that around 30 per cent of Sun-like stars may have Earth-like planets in their habitable zones. At the time of writing, astronomers don’t yet know of any Earth-sized, Earth-mass...
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Past-Time Lover: Amelia Earhart
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Amelia Earhart

...become the first woman to solo fly across the North American continent and back, the first woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic and between 1930 and 1936 I set seven women’s speed and distance records in aviation and continued to be a huge advocate for female pilots. Unfortunately my life-long adventure ended in what would become my final attempt at a major...
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Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?
Money & Business

Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?

...becomes, the more (negative feedback) countersteering will be required to correct it, but also the greater the possibility of 'over-correcting' and veering off course in the other direction. If levels of stress are not corrected, the body continues to produce adrenal hormones which further contribute to feelings of stress and send the body-mind system into a vicious,...
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