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Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses. The badge for this course Looking globally: The future of education can be used as part of the first assessment of the Open University Masters module EE830 Educating the next generation within two years of gaining the badge. The Masters...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...study in the Arts. You might be interested in a more recent Open University course, A111 Discovering the arts and humanities...Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: read closely – analyse a passage from the play examine genre – what kind of play is Doctor Faustus? consider themes – what are the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...Skills Music has the extraordinary ability to have a direct and immediate emotional impact; it can move us, touch us, disturb us. It may be that listening to music in the way that I have been outlining may not be enough to describe the ways in which music can affect us in such a manner. All the same, understanding how music works – appreciating the different constituent...
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Article 10 mins
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...studying at university. You can explore the topics to continue to develop your knowledge and skills. Writing Analysis in Social Care is an interactive learning resource which is freely available for any workers in the social work and social care field and relevant to all UK nations. A summary of research into social workers’ writing is the focus of Rai, L., Ferguson, G....
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...study focuses on an issue often referred to as WASH. Which stands for water, sanitation, and hygiene. Manual drilling refers to techniques for drilling boreholes for drinking and irrigation water that don’t use power machinery. Make notes of the stakeholders and their interests by completing the stakeholder importance and influence matrix. You have to estimate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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

...study that would become the book Mothering at the Margins: Black Mothers Raising Autistic Children in the UK began on WhatsApp. As my academic colleague Claire and I shared yet another voice note conversation that had me nodding in recognition and the typed response of ‘same’ pinging through each of our phones, we began to realise something profound. This was...
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Article 5 mins
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...study of British Cohort data revealed a strong association between childhood reading and increased attainment in literacy and numeracy in adolescence (Sullivan & Brown, 2013). In addition, as teachers know intuitively, and other studies have shown, reading for pleasure has myriad other benefits such as a wider vocabulary and general knowledge, an enriched imagination and...
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Article 10 mins
What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?
Nature & Environment

What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?

...study is looking at a small mammal - and its smaller parasites - to get a sense of what might be in store for us all...How do species respond as the climate warms? Although most research on Arctic animals focuses on economically important or charismatic species like caribou or polar bears, small mammals, such as shrews, and their parasites can serve as indicators of...
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Article 5 mins