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How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...course Looking Globally: The Future of Education, in relation to an environmental issue affecting where you live, learners are asked: In response to the key environmental issue(s) you have identified locally, how could your local education system respond? How might you expect your local education system to respond given your awareness of constraints on it? How can local...
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Your OpenLearn profile is changing

...courses in progress, saved items and achievements. [Screenshot of the new OpenLearn profile page. The page shows the user’s profile header labelled “Forename Surname’s OpenLearn Profile.” The left sidebar contains options including My profile, My badges, and My OU life, with an indicator showing the profile is private. The main section describes what the OpenLearn...
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Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds
Education & Development

Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds

...course ED841 Understanding children's development and learning... Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds A short introduction to this album. Teaching and learning in virtual worlds Dr Kieron Sheehy of The Open University talks about The Open University presence in virtual worlds. Teaching and learning in the real world Dr Kieron Sheehy of The Open...
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A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?

...course Additional support Experiencing mental health problems, or supporting someone who is can be hard to manage alone. Contacting your GP is a common starting point, if you are feeling mentally unwell - but also think about consulting a trained therapist, friends and family, charities, community and work support, and student services. Additionally, below is a list of...
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Folkestone
Education & Development

Folkestone

...courses to help her better understand her home town of Folkestone, Kent. Her main motivation for this is that she would like to develop a better understanding of the local area. She would consider studying the OpenLearn courses below to help her discover and understand more about the following: The sea and the local weather as I’m keen to spend lots of time on the beach...
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Measure the Pulfrich Effect
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Pulfrich Effect

...German physicist called Carl Pulfrich. This is a very simple effect to demonstrate, and to try it for yourself you need just three things: a length of thin string or thread at least two metres long a weight to tie on the end (e.g. a bunch of keys or a small kitchen utensil) a pair of sunglasses You might also like to collect the equipment you will need for the later part...
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How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...German into French, fell into our hands. There was the History of the Inconstant Lover, who, when he thought to clasp the bride to whom he had pledged his vows, found himself in the arms of the pale ghost of her whom he had deserted. There was the tale of the sinful founder of his race, whose miserable doom it was to bestow the kiss of death on all the younger sons of his...
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Dr Vicky Taylor on her work with Asian Elephants
Science, Maths & Technology

Dr Vicky Taylor on her work with Asian Elephants

Dr Vicky Taylor describes her work with Asian elephants and how the partnership with Woburn Safari Park contributes to our courses...Explore the OU/BBC series Vicky Taylor was academic advisor for
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