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The learning design word wheel
Education & Development

The learning design word wheel

Are you creating a course? The Open University's Learning Design team have created a word wheel to help shape your planning...[The learning design word wheel] Click on the image above, to launch the interactive full screen.
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Being heard
Education & Development

Being heard

...courses I am a Staff Tutor, which means I look after those people who teach at the OU. For me, YXM130 provides opportunities for exploration and looking at a problem, or theme, from all kinds of perspectives. If I was to study YXM130, I would explore how people can make themselves heard, how we listen to one another and how we can communicate in the modern world. I am...
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Sir David Attenborough and The Open University
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough and The Open University

...courses that you can imagine and you only have one lecture room which you can use, and it’s all going to have to go in there. That’s not practical.’ And that led to the realisation that the television was a valuable icing on the cake, but it wasn’t the cake. And the problem would be how you would get Open University lecturers and make them available as teachers to...
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Learning at Work Week: The OpenLearn Intrapreneurship Hub
Miscellaneous

Learning at Work Week: The OpenLearn Intrapreneurship Hub

...courses and exclusive content and also explore other OpenLearn resources. These include more than 900 courses, including 80 badged courses which count towards CPD hours. And it’s all available for free. Register below for exclusive Learning at Work Week content Complete the form below to receive access to our exclusive Intrapreneurship Hub and emails with the latest...
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Article 5 mins
OpenLearn on Instagram
Education & Development

OpenLearn on Instagram

Browse through our latest Instagram content. We have FREE courses, academic articles, videos, interactives and many more open learning resources. ...To access the content featured on our latest Instagram posts, click here
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Activity 5 mins
Dominic Ball testimonial
Education & Development

Dominic Ball testimonial

...course was easy to understand and worked well around football. Support from the PFA "We travel a lot, sometimes twice a week for away games, but even in a hotel room you can do your work. I like the fact that I had the flexibility to get on and do my work on flights or at different clubs but keep up with my workload. My brother’s degree was partly funded by the...
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Article 10 mins
Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...course the subject matter has been revised. The Catholic Church has for years been responsible for the obligatory provision of a course on religion, in not only its own schools, but also in the public school system. Parents will not however have to buy new editions of the Bible, to their relief perhaps and to the chagrin of the publishers, as the 2016 curriculum for the...
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Article 5 mins
The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...course, teaching shorthand, was offered in the 1700s; the University of London began offering distance-learning degrees to students around the world in the mid-19th century. For another, would-be reformers had a long history of over-promising and under-delivering when it came to educational technology; as far back as 1922, for example, Thomas Edison declared that “the...
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Article 15 mins