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Co-designing professional learning to address evolving challenges
Education & Development

Co-designing professional learning to address evolving challenges

...working. Furthermore, we introduced our most recent development, a cross-Nation eTwinning initiative, a practitioner-led intervention that brings participants and their pupils together in their language learning journeys. We explored what success means in the design and delivery of collaborative PL opportunities as ‘knowing to have helped others; being able to...
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Understanding Fitness to Practise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Fitness to Practise

...work registrants. Similarly, it explains what Fitness to Practise is and why it is important for registrants to understand it along with how and why to raise a concern with a regulator. Animation 6 What is Fitness to Practise for social care and social work service users? [Witness to harm - Video 6] Transcript Animation 7 What is Fitness to Practise for social care and...
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Welcome to the OpenLearn Resources for Educators hub
Education & Development

Welcome to the OpenLearn Resources for Educators hub

...working across the secondary, primary and early years sectors, including those involved in home education, special schools and pupil referral units...The resources cover a range of topics including ones aimed at specific subject knowledge development and those targeted at pedagogy, whole school topics or specific initiatives. The resources are offered at different...
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Critical thinking – A skill and a process
Education & Development

Critical thinking – A skill and a process

...works. This helps us to be better employees, by reflecting on where processes and ways of working can be improved. It helps us to more engaged citizens, as we are reflecting on political campaigns and their truthfulness and value for us when we are asked to participate in an election. Critical thinking pushes ourselves and our environment to continuously adapt and...
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Your Health in Your Hands - PHBs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Your Health in Your Hands - PHBs

...work and how will they affect you? Personal Health Budgets or PHBs are the next major step towards personalising healthcare. They’ve been designed to allow people more choice and control over the money spent on meeting their healthcare and wellbeing needs... The impact of Personal Health Budgets In this discussion three people involved in implementing Personal Health...
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Audio 1 hr 7 mins
The Open University Worldwide
OpenLearn Ireland

The Open University Worldwide

...works in partnership with education organisations around the world, in countries such as Africa, China and Russia. Supported open learning enables universities to offer a high quality education to a large number of students, who have the option to work alongside part-time study. OU Futures How might The Open University evolve with new technology, new trends within the...
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Astronomy
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy

...work. Is Our Sun Normal? Astronomers compare events on other stars to helps us better understand our sun. Mapping the Milky Way The discovery of radio emissions from the Milky Way, and the theory of dark-matter. The Shape of Our Galaxy Infra-red satellites. The DIRBE experiment on NASA's Cosmic Explorer opened a new window into the Milky Way. The Scale of Our Galaxy A...
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Audio 1 hr 21 mins
International Development: microcredit and migration
Science, Maths & Technology

International Development: microcredit and migration

...working to expand the contribution that African migrants abroad can make to Africa’s development. Finally, a Chinese "beer pioneer" and China trade experts discuss China’s membership of the World Trade Organisation. To complete the album, Dr Helen Yanacopulos of The Open University's Development Policy and Practice unit explains the choice of some of the case studies,...
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Audio 1 hr 50 mins