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Developing reading for pleasure in the classroom with student and early career teachers
Education & Development

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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Video 20 mins
Environment: Lake Baikal
Nature & Environment

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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Audio 28 mins
Write it right: seven common writing mistakes
Languages

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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Video 5 mins
Explore the Realm of Pedagogy with Pedagodzilla!
Education & Development

Explore the Realm of Pedagogy with Pedagodzilla!

...resource. ...[The Pedagodzilla book cover]Have you ever wondered what the connection between a Muppets’ Christmas Carol and transformative learning might be? Have you pondered how behaviourism might help players catch ‘em all in Pokemon Go? Was the Council of Elrond in The Lord of the Rings really a good example of social constructivism? Well, wonder no more! Based on...
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Article 5 mins
How to provide a trauma-informed police response to victims of rape and serious sexual offences
Society, Politics & Law

How to provide a trauma-informed police response to victims of rape and serious sexual offences

...Resourcing issues, compounded by officer inexperience or a lack of upskilling, can impact on the victim’s experience of receiving a trauma-informed (TI) response. This article will consider the issues facing FROs as the first point of police contact, whether the training package they receive to deal with sensitive cases involving RASSO is sufficient and appropriate and...
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Article 5 mins
Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Rabbit: Chinese New Year

...resources on China and Chinese. In addition to those free resources, you may also wish to have look at our short course in Chinese business culture, which you can start at any time of the year. If you’d like to find out about the latest news, public talks and courses relating to Chinese language and culture at The Open University, please visit the Online Confucius...
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Audio 5 mins
People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...human body. Measuring people is far from simple. Measure the length of your forearm. This is the distance between your elbow and your wrist. This is far from simple. You’d maybe like to measure the length between the axis around which your elbow hinges then a similar axis for your wrist, or simply from the back of your elbow with a bent arm to a bone in your wrist. But,...
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Article 10 mins
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...human rights and the rule of law in Europe. CoE enforces the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) through the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It also works with the EU bodies such as the EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship and the European Court of Human Rights. The ECI may prove, in time, to be a stimulus for active democratic...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs