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What is inclusive design and how are Microsoft using it to make the XBox better?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is inclusive design and how are Microsoft using it to make the XBox better?

...social gaming experience..."It's really just about a design process that meets everybody's needs..." Inclusive design is a step beyond taking a design and making it accessible - as the XBox team explain, it's about rethinking how you design altogether. Transcript Full transcipt - and much more on Microsoft's approach to inclusive design, including a set of toolkits to...
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My town, your town, whose town?
Society, Politics & Law

My town, your town, whose town?

...Town with Nicholas Crane. Take your learning further with our Introduction to social sciences course. Try these free OpenLearn tasters. Acknowledgements: Academic advisors and copy editors: Gerry Mooney and Matt Staples Copy suppliers: Arlene Crampsie, Graham Day, Alison Gilmour, Harman Murtagh, Graham Neilsen, Mike Robinson, Peter Tregenna. Interactive designed by Cimex....
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PodMag December 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag December 2016

...Social Sciences and Arts (FASS) at The Open University...In this edition of the PodMag, the theme is human rights. You may be aware that December 10 is Human Rights Day, which calls upon everyone to stand up for someone’s rights – whether that’s defending the rights of a refugee, a woman, a child, an LGBT person, indigenous peoples, or anyone at risk of...
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Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...social workers, we were going beyond sharing anecdotes as friends. We were also documenting how these systems have been built around certain assumptions about what’s ‘normal’: white, middle-class, non-disabled norms that shape whose voices get heard and whose get dismissed (Tyack, 1974). This is precisely why some scholars describe autoethnography as ‘a radical...
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Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...Social’ element in your work. You might be surprised by the range of possible factors that you find valuable. This is one of the advantages of taking a course like this: it opens up your thinking and suggests options and ideas you might not have considered before. Identify how important each factor is to you by using the following scale: 3 = Very important 2 = Important...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...working in an educational setting. It identifies and explores some of the key issues around teaching geography in secondary schools. Engaging with these issues and debates will help you to reflect upon and develop your practice as a geography teacher. You will also develop a greater awareness of the wider context of geography education and how this affects geography in...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...work of the sci-fi author Ursula K LeGuin, who died earlier this week...[Ursula K Le Guin] Hermaphrodite beings, dragon women, ambivalent utopias and sympathetic magic. Just a tiny taste of the fantasy and science fiction worlds created by Ursula K Le Guin, who has died at the ripe age of 88. Le Guin challenged everything that came before and opened up new ways of doing...
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The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...work...[Jane Austen 10 pound note] 'Austenmania’ has been a prominent feature of British culture for the last decade and more, and never more so than in the year which marks the bicentenary of her death. The extent of 21st century national and international popular investment in Jane Austen and her novels, expressed in part by the decision to put her image on the new...
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