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Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...human population lives in cities, most people will never see the things that we’re bringing to them with blue chip natural history, so I make no apologies for doing that. Blue-chip, Attenborough and green issues We absolutely know that the people that come to the blue-chip also watch the other programming, so they are definitely interested. And I think David is a very...
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Video 15 mins
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...resources available to do so? What else could they use those resources for? The enormous cost in time and money of fighting a large corporation in court might dissuade them from further action even if they got as far as beginning an investigation. The path from act to conviction is shaped by, amongst other things, the knowledge of potential observers, their own...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...resource for young people to help them think critically about the choices they make and about how to act positively for change, around the issues they care about. This short course was made in the aftermath of violent street disturbances in working-class areas of Northern Ireland in the spring of 2021. It was developed with boys (aged 14–16 years) from the Shankill in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...human agency or will. This is an old argument that goes back to Christian debates over free will and determination: are humans responsible for their actions, or had God predetermined the course of events? The secularised philosophies of history debate the extent to which people (agents) actually shape the course of events, or are shaped by them. Most notoriously, in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...resources. But there are so many to choose from that it can be difficult to know where to start. Search engines You can use the well-known search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo, but you will get more reliable results if you use a specialised search engine such as Google Scholar, which returns links to articles and academic papers produced by researchers in...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...resources that people draw on in lay political reasoning. This is what makes ideologies so resilient: the fact that they may become taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of the social world. This point has been made, for instance, with regards to the ideology of nationalism and with regards to the ideology of neoliberalism. The social psychology of citizenship is...
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Article 5 mins
Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...resources provided, for example, include a variety of materials supporting independent learning strategies. Students receive materials, prepare independently, and then attend tutorials to discuss. The ‘Flipped Classrooms’ methodology parallels traditional distance learning in this sense. It aims to convert the classroom into a space for discussion and practice....
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Article 10 mins
What are the benefits of creative play at home?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of creative play at home?

...resources in new ways. This not only supports sharing experiences with others but widens children’s ability to feel able to participate because there are no right or wrong answers and there is no pressure to conform or respond in a certain way. Being creative, developing ideas and turning them into something meaningful relies on making judgements about the value of...
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Article 10 mins