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Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...research in the primary school and observe children’s play and classroom learning, and listen to interviews with school staff and children. You will also explore cyber-bullying and the primary school curriculum. Transcript If you wish to undertake any practical activities within schools you may do so with Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance in a school...
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...researchers often focus on everyday life itself. Neither of these forms of evidence is better or more useful than the other, indeed they often complement one another, but they need to be used appropriately in terms of the question being asked and the claim being made. So let's look now at both quantitative and qualitative evidence in turn, demonstrating how each can be...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...research. Go to the OU, go to the library, look at the prospectus. But get clear in your mind what you want it for. SPEAKER 1 Doesn't matter what your age is or what your background history is. If you've got the enthusiasm, do it. End of the day, if you've got it, you can do it. Studying a multidisciplinary qualification at The Ope University. The Open University would...
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Research Project on Artificial Intelligence' in New Hampshire, USA. However, this is a US-centric view of history. In fact, Symbolic AI was being discussed in Britain as early as 1941. During the Second World War, the great English mathematician Alan Turing – often described as 'the father of AI' (and of 'artificial life' and of computing itself) – was working at...
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...researching digital technology and nature conservation. In January 2015 Lisa and Gina Maffey founded the Digital Nature Network LinkedIn group to share pan-disciplinary digital research and practice and support nature conservation aims. (Please get in touch if you’d like to join.) Transcript Earth in Vision Project Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 I’m Lisa...
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...research document. Although it is short, the extract contains a lot of different ideas which can make it quite difficult to ‘digest’. So when you have read it once, return to it and either draw a diagram summarising the factors which seem to influence the way housework is shared, or list these factors as a series of bullet points. (If you are not sure what these...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...Research has considered both the persistence of discriminatory practices in work in spite of decades of equality legislation and how and why EDI initiatives may fail in organisations (for instance, Colley et al., 2021; Dobbin and Kalev, 2016; Noon and Ogbonna, 2021). Many organisations have policies and initiatives concerned with improving and supporting EDI and some,...
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...research; develop and demonstrate; education and train; and scale up. Content that is being produced through the ICAERUS project is shown at the top of Figure 2, which includes this course that is part of the ICAERUS Academy. [Diagram showing the parts of the ICAERUS project] Figure 2 The different stakeholders in the ICAERUS project In this course you will review the...