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Pathways To Success in Higher Education
Education & Development

Pathways To Success in Higher Education

...interactive guide that will take you on a learning journey through a range of free online resources from The Open University's award winning OpenLearn website. It will help you: tailor some informal study to your own interests and goals gain an insight into higher education study prepare for accredited learning. Why Choose Pathways to Success? There are many reasons for...
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Activity 1 hr
My town, your town, whose town?
Society, Politics & Law

My town, your town, whose town?

...Town with Nicholas Crane. Take your learning further with our Introduction to social sciences course. Try these free OpenLearn tasters. Acknowledgements: Academic advisors and copy editors: Gerry Mooney and Matt Staples Copy suppliers: Arlene Crampsie, Graham Day, Alison Gilmour, Harman Murtagh, Graham Neilsen, Mike Robinson, Peter Tregenna. Interactive designed by Cimex....
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Activity 5 mins
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...interaction about texts, potentially leading to social action. Their team’s work with schools has myriad connections to CPRT’s aims for primary education. As Robin Alexander’s recent CPRT submission to the House of Commons Education Committee reminded us, these aims focus on the individual – their wellbeing, engagement and autonomy, and on the relationship between...
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Religion in history: conflict, conversion and coexistence
History & The Arts

Religion in history: conflict, conversion and coexistence

...interaction of competing communities in compelling depth, highlighting periods and cities that experienced turbulence, and occasionally harmony, from such an intermingling of beliefs and ideas. A huge historical range, from the very beginnings of early Christianity to modern-day Africa, is rigorously examined in cultural, social and ideological terms. This material forms...
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Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...interactions may give us insights that challenge stereotypes and representations communicated in mainstream media. In addition, you will be able to explore an example of a collaboration between academics from Open University, Oxford University and the Migration Museum Project through an interactive exhibition about the Calais Refugee Camp entitled ‘Call me by my...
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Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Synthesis as a way of understanding the changing uniqueness of rural Ireland

...social context. The ‘layers' represent the interaction between the local area and general social processes. You will discover that industrial restructuring not only operates at national and international levels, but also combines with specific features at a local level. For this reason, general processes do not produce similar outcomes indiscriminately over space. In...
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A new union flag
History & The Arts

A new union flag

...interactive projects and workshops. Visit her website here. Gil Mualem-Doron is an artist, researcher and a community facilitator. He is the founder of SEAS – Socially Engaged Art Salon in Brighton. He works in various media including photography, print, painting and mix media installations. Most of his work is socially and politically engaged. His work has been...
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15 facts about number 15
Education & Development

15 facts about number 15

...interactive or video...1: The chemical element phosphorous has the atomic number 15 [periodic table behind a female scientist] In its pure form, phosphorous is highly reactive, but it’s not actually found in this form on Earth. Take a look at the chemical elements and how they are arranged in the Periodic Table in our free course, Discovering Chemistry. 2: Our 15th most...
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