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...resources (such as spaces, services and infrastructures) and intangible qualities (such as creative talents, skills, knowledge, social and emotional capital): Asset Mapping: Comparative approaches A working paper reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of asset mapping and similar approaches: Making sense of assets: Community asset mapping and related approaches for...
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Badges come to OpenLearn

...Resources (OER) with badged open courses (BOCs). These have been developed in response to the needs of informal learners who are seeking access to study skills and to have their learning recognised. Badged open courses FAQ Why study free courses with OpenLearn? 'We have listened to the changing needs and requirements of our informal learners using our open platforms' says...
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Developing reading for pleasure in the classroom with student and early career teachers
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Developing reading for pleasure in the classroom with student and early career teachers

...resources which offers suggestions for supporting early career teachers’ knowledge of children’s texts, reader identities and understanding of reading for pleasure pedagogy. [Developing Reading For Pleasure] Transcript Session Outcomes Session participants suggested that we need to: 1. Open up the discussion about what counts as reading for pleasure with early career...
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Environment: Lake Baikal
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Environment: Lake Baikal

...resources be exploited to support economic development? In Siberia, Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and contains one fifth of the world’s freshwater. It has developed over 25 million years to be a truly unique eco-system - yet this lake is now an environment at serious risk. This album focuses on the growing environmental threats to the region, which was...
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Write it right: seven common writing mistakes
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Write it right: seven common writing mistakes

...resource is not an advanced grammar course. Rather, it offers accessible advice. Watching it takes five minutes (and it can be replayed as necessary to help understanding). This animation will provide some simple, accessible guidance to help students with their writing. A helpful refresher If you know that you struggle with these common writing mistakes, the time invested...
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The Perseid meteor shower 2017
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The Perseid meteor shower 2017

...human history.” The Leonid meteor storms of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s were much more spectacular, and had rates 10 times greater than the best Perseid display. The Met Office suggest that there's a chance of cloud making the night less than memorable across much of the UK, but have a forecast of the best times to look up: We heading towards the peak of the...
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Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology
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Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology

...human body fight a viral infection? Prof. David Male - a professor of biology, whose area of research is the immunology of infection. He addressed some of the common questions regarding immunity, such as, what happens when the virus infects us? Can we get immunity from COVID-19 after an infection? Prof. Harith Alani - a professor of web science at the Knowledge Media...
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Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
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Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Humanities) in Cambridge, where he is a Senior Research Fellow. John recalls “In 2013-2015 David Runciman and I ran a small project on Technology and Democracy which in 2020 led to the establishment of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy in CRASSH of which I was a founder and am Chair of its advisory board. Other stuff: I have been Director of the Wolfson...
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