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You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...careful research rather than assumptions, common-sense or guesswork. [Prehistoric cave painting, including human hands.] For this reason, social scientists are deliberate about the kinds of questions they ask, and how they go about trying to answer them. Three basic foundations of social science thinking include: Asking questions, particularly those which start with...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...to your family and friends – perhaps they can offer support (e.g. help with child care, walking the dog etc.), or read your drafts and listen to your ideas. When time is tight, decide what is not going to be done – or will have to be done differently – by adopting the 4Ds approach: Do it. Dump it. Delegate it. Do it less well...Session 1: The nature of Master’s-level study: 9.10 What if you fall behind? - Nearly all ......
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...adults and children actually need to see it happen in order to believe it. After the first cut, you should have a band that was twice as long as the original and half the width. The second cut produces two connected bands of the same length but half the width – a less obvious result. A useful general strategy for stimulating pupils’ curiosity and channelling the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...careful consideration. The mentor must avoid patronising the student teacher and should be sensitive to their adult status. Conversations between two adults, where one is the teacher and the other the student teacher, can be uncomfortable and non-productive unless both participants feel that their contributions are valued. This can particularly be the case if the student...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...adults in the living room, for instance. And then things started changing in the way that, the history of television, you then had multi channels, so you had Sky and equivalent, so everyone was then fighting for all the viewers. I think what’s also interesting is that people used to sit through the adverts and some people still sit through the adverts, so you’re...
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Video 30 mins
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...care, allowing yourself time to get the feel of what you are looking at. Don't assume you already know what you are looking at...Reading evidence: 1.2.4 Stage 2: Find a way in - It's easy to be distracted by the surface appearance of a diagram, but we are really interested in the underlying message. This is rather like the distinction made between the content and context...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...care sector identify pertinent health issues in the field of women’s health...Exploring issues in women's health: 1 Thinking about women’s health today - Before you start, you’ll watch a video featuring OU academics, Dr Sara MacKian and Dr Sharon Mallon, as well as OU employees discussing issues in relation to women’s health. Activity 1 Issues in women’s health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...caring is so habitual, that we often fail to recognize it, even when it’s right in front of our eyes. Our love for some animals even seems to excuse us from complicity in industrialized killing: In a current KFC TV advertising campaign, pairs of friends undertake the ‘KFC Friendship Bucket Test’: one has to answer a question about their friend, and match their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs