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Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...educators developed portfolios for children, consisting of learning stories to highlight children’s competence, learning and dispositions. Collaboration resulted in the adoption of the same approach by school educators. These portfolios accompanied the children to school, and were used both as ‘icebreakers’ in discussions about school readiness, and as the basis for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is possible to study them at any time, and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are all available on The Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...technology and automated processes. Agile manufacturing (Kidd, 1994) which emphasises the need for an organisation to be able to switch frequently from one market-driven objective to another. Again, agile manufacturing has only become feasible on a large scale with the advent of enabling technology. In various ways, these approaches all seek to combine the high volume and...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...educated to see before it a new Federation rising like a majestic temple over the tomb of war, emulating the transatlantic Federation in prosperity and unity but surpassing it by far in all the riches of culture, manners and science, and consecrated with all the traditions and reliques of the ancient world.’ Whether or not next week’s vote leaves the European temple...
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Article 10 mins
Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...educational initiatives) Where independent ventures are sold to corporates, is there any way of preserving their distinctive identity and core values against the pressures to rationalise and extract the maximum value for shareholders? Corporate takeovers of independent commercial ventures might be seen as ‘the market at work’ but what about social ventures, which have...
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Article 5 mins
Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...Education and Language studies, gives us a view of the OU's involvement in the series and what the audiences will gain from watching: "As an academic consultant for the BBC, I got the unique opportunity to see how this production took shape. I got involved when the series had been commissioned but hadn’t been filmed yet. Of course, lots of work has already gone on to...
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Article 10 mins
How good were the pollster's predictions?
Science, Maths & Technology

How good were the pollster's predictions?

...educated voters, especially outside urban areas, hit unprecedentedly high levels, as people who had never voted before (and may never vote again) came out in droves. In both cases, forecasters’ pre-vote turnout models had predicted that these voters wouldn’t show up in nearly the numbers they did. In the 2017 election, it was turnout among the young in particular that...
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Video 5 mins
Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?
Languages

Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?

...Educational institutions also promote their wares on Twitter and other social media. The holy grail? Engagement with potential customers / employers / employees / students... Research has been carried out into all sorts of aspects of using Twitter to engage people as well as to teach and learn among many other uses. We have a fair amount of data on how people engage with...
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Article 5 mins