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Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...become familiar with the different theoretical tools used in research, which will enable you to begin to interrogate research literature and the research process itself. ...In this free course, Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth, you will build on your understanding of how to evaluate research by thinking about a fundamental part of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...become dominant distinguish how labelling something can create expectations about behaviour and actions give examples of inequalities that result from particular social constructions...Social problems: Who makes them?: 1.1 What is ‘social’ about a social problem? - In the late twentieth century a list of current social problems in the UK might include poverty,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
War Memorials
History & The Arts

War Memorials

...OU’s free online learning space. Our new online course, Heritage, whose heritage? (A180), gives a more fulsome introduction. The two total wars of the twentieth century are the subject of the course Total war and social change: Europe 1914-55 (AA312). We also offer an appealing starter course for budding family historians, which covers some of these questions: Start...
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Article 10 mins
Your journey of learning and discovery with us
Education & Development

Your journey of learning and discovery with us

...OU courses including our Access courses. b. Essential Skills for Open University study. Scotland resources: courses focused on Scottish history, language and culture. Links to key OpenLearn Hubs – such as our Mental health and wellbeing hub. OpenLearn Create There are some extremely useful resources on OpenLearn Create which may support learners who need a gentler...
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Pathways To Success in Higher Education
Education & Development

Pathways To Success in Higher Education

...OU in Wales by emailing them emailing them. How Do I Know Which Subject Pathway to Choose? You may not be sure of where your interests lie, or you may already have some ideas. For this reason a series of short 'tasters' in different subject areas are available below. You can dip into whichever ones interest you and then progress to other units in your chosen area of...
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Activity 1 hr
Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?

...OU-BBC co-production Wild Isles have helped to raise awareness of the variety of species across the UK. With nature playing such a vital role, should more be done to safeguard it? Connections to landfills Each day through our consumption, we generate waste, but we rarely think about where this goes once it leaves us. In last few decades, the UK has focused on reducing the...
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Non-existent countries
Society, Politics & Law

Non-existent countries

...OU’s Andy Morris interviewed Nick Middleton about his book ‘An Atlas of Countries that Don't Exist’. Listen below, or read along with the transcript. Transcript Andy Morris Hello. I'm Andy Morris from the Geography Department at the Open University and I'm joined here today by Doctor Nick Middleton from Saint Anne’s College Oxford. Nick is a geographer but he is...
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Some thoughts on Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Some thoughts on Brexit

...become increasingly poor and ineffective. When your average citizen perceives that such inequality is not unrelated to the distribution of political power in Westminster and Brussels the response is clear: a vote to leave the EU that has the added benefit of putting two-fingers up to the so-called Westminster elite. What happens next is anyone’s guess. All views...
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