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Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...research and practice; and some key concepts such as agency, power and authority and context. You will consider some differences between concepts, models and theories and be introduced to some questions that will help you evaluate different educational leadership theories and models...This free course, Exploring educational leadership, provides an overview of the field of...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Jury Hub from OpenLearn - a video introduction
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub from OpenLearn - a video introduction

...Researchers interested in juries and jurors explore the factors which may shape how verdicts are chosen. Biases (such as racial biases) and different verdict systems (for example, the guilty, not guilty and not proven verdicts system currently used in Scotland) have all been shown to impact on how jurors evaluate evidence and the verdicts they ultimately deliver. Our role...
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Video 5 mins
Broken Pipeline for Black Coaches in World Football
Health, Sports & Psychology

Broken Pipeline for Black Coaches in World Football

...in Sports Coaching (first edition). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367854287. Diversity in English professional football 2022: https://www.statista.com/aboutus/our-research-commitment. Duffey, D.E (2018), It's No Secret, it's Racism. Szymanski, S (2023), Black Representation in English Professional Football: A Statistical Analysis: https://shorturl.at/xkIYi....
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Alan Turing: Life and legacy
Science, Maths & Technology

Alan Turing: Life and legacy

...research that we are able to read this text on a PC, laptop or smart phone. Aside from his contribution to maths and computing however, Turing’s influence impacted on a variety of fields including cryptanalysis and deciphering Nazi codes which helped to end World War 2. This collection examines Turing’s troubled personal life, the significance of his role at Bletchley...
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Audio 31 mins
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...Research carried out by the Children's Society has led them to believe a welcome pack can counter this. Morag Stuart, head of the charity's one-to-one fundraising team, said: ‘What we are doing is setting the tone from the moment people sign up on the street. We need to speak to our supporters in different ways that are in tune with their different lifestyles and this...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...children?' To which the answer came, Thou shalt govern in thy house; and if thou returnest to it thou shalt see thy wife and children; and on ceasing to serve thou shalt cease to be a squire.' 'Good, by God!' said Sancho Panza; 'I could have told myself that ..." Source: Cervantes, Don Quixote, Chapter LVIII (1615) The effect is brought about by means of a tube down to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work
History & The Arts

Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work

...children with the tops of their heads aflame caught my attention, and held it. They would always have written, I believe, but thank goodness they eventually published – despite being women, despite not having money, despite living elsewhere than the south of the country – too! Take part in our Quiz: Which Brontë ​sister wrote it Explore the OU/BBC drama on the...
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Article 5 mins
A reader's guide to Holes
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Holes

...children. A film adaptation was released in 2004, with Sigourney Weaver as the sinister Warden and Jon Voight playing an odious guard, Mr Sir. The author has said that his main aim in his books is to make them enjoyable. The moral element has to be secondary to the pleasure provided. Certainly, despite the suffering it describes, ‘Holes’ manages to be a humorous novel...
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