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Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...education is all about. It’s questioning issues, often issues of common knowledge. Now, of course, this doesn’t mean to say that you play everything safe and that you reference absolutely everything. You have to think about what you’re doing. You have to recognise that there are some things which are, if you like, common knowledge, which are unchanging. But there...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...education is that they are capable of critical thinking - actively challenging both themselves and others. For most of us, reflection becomes a more meaningful activity if it can be shared, either in a group or with another student. Putting your thoughts and ideas into words and getting a response from someone else, then perhaps listening to their reactions, makes the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation....Week 2: Unique properties of water: Introduction - JANET Welcome to Week 2. Your experiments so far have shown us two important things-- water can make up a large amount of the content of an everyday food, and water can pass through semipermeable barriers such as cell walls. That means that the water content...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...educated and extremely brilliant science bloggers who have discovered flaws in papers who are peer reviewing papers and so some of these bloggers are really excellent and they deserve a forum, they deserve to be included, they are often better than environmental correspondents in their reporting and why shouldn’t they be heard? RH: I think the mainstream science has...
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Audio 5 mins
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...education reforms of the late nineteenth century, but it also saw, for the first time, reading habits reflect the opening of new professional horizons, traditionally thought of as male, on account of the mass mobilisation of the war effort (for a good summary of this within the broader context, see McAleer, 1992, pp. 53–4). Detection was one such potential horizon, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...education officer at the time, and we packed our bags as a family and arrived in London, and it was really, I guess, in a way, a surprise and not a surprise that we were on the outside again, because now we were Greeks in London and we were, again, not quite belonging to anywhere. And there was racist abuse. It was after the fight for independence and all those troubles....
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Forensic science and fingerprints: References - Jackson, A. and Jackson, J. (2008) Forensic Science, 2nd edn, Harlow, Pearson Education....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...education. To complete this course you will need access to a calculator, a notepad and pen, and a protractor. Enrolling on this course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. The badge is a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject. What you learn by completing the course will really help if you wish to enrol on a formal...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs