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The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...systems in that it dominates the international educational marketplace, academic databases and as a medium for instruction. Altbach states that “English is supplanting such languages as French, German and Spanish as the international medium of scholarship. These languages are in no danger of disappearing in higher education, but their world role has shrunk” (Altbach,...
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What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...system at rest (the flat-water surface) being disturbed (the stone being tossed into the water). Then a wave is generated as the system returns to rest once more...What are waves?: 3 Types of wave - A wave may be defined as a periodic, or regularly repeating, disturbance that transports energy from one place to another. For example, a stone dropped into the centre of a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)
Education & Development

Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)

...system er budd pawb: mae hyn yn cynnwys athrawon, myfyrwyr a phawb yn y sefydliad addysgol. Mae addysg gynhwysol yn ymwneud â chymryd rhan a dysgu oddi wrth ei gilydd. Nid yw addysg gynhwysol yn sefydlog – mae'n datblygu...2 Modelau meddwl: 2 Modelau meddwl - Yn Adran 1, gofynnwyd i chi ystyried eich diffiniadau eich hun o addysg gynhwysol. Yn Adran 2, rydym yn dangos...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...system. Additionally not all income will be declared to the HMRC. Again, as with household surveys, there may also be issues with confidentiality when using HMRC data...Understanding economic inequality: 3.3 Measuring income inequality - Now that you know better what income is, you’ll turn your attention to understanding how income inequality is measured. Measurements...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...system - Digit[al]isation It is worth spending a moment to consider the structural counterpart of digitisation, ‘digitalisation’. Digitalisation, as it appears in the academic context, is the conversion of the structures of collection, organisation, storage, finding, retrieval, delivery, access, and response through which we encounter objects (our libraries’ digital...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...system of analysis...Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground: 1.1 Overview of Mozart's sonatas - Mozart wrote nineteen compositions with the title ‘Sonata’ for the fortepiano, works spanning from his teenage years (the Sonata in C, K279, was written at the age of fifteen) to two years before his death (the Sonata in D, K576, dates from 1789). Although they...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...Systems map showing components influencing team effectiveness...Groups and teamwork: 2.9 Conclusions - This reading has addressed four questions: what characterises a group, what characterises a team, how project teams are organised and what can make teams ineffective. Groups can be formal or informal depending on the circumstances. Work groups or teams are generally more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...systems. Thus, drawing broad generalizations about the practices, tools, and work of local actors from one program or school to another without regard for the complexities and idiosyncrasies of particular institutional contexts may result in unintended consequences. To understand inclusive education, researchers need to understand locally situated forms of exclusion.’...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs