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...OU will use the framework to identify barriers for Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic staff and students and develop an action plan to address them. This event will introduce the REC and highlight opportunities and challenges for OU’s engagement with the Charter. Transcript Language and terminology This panel discussion with Rehana Awan, Mel Green, Mustafa Ali and...

...OU) pioneering experience in distance learning to give 18 million people access to vital educational resources to help develop new skills since the UK’s first lockdown in March 2020. At the start of the first lockdown, daily visitors to OpenLearn increased overnight from 40,000 to over 200,000 and the team acted quickly to put essential learning resources in the hands...

...OU’s own student body, including some of the so-called ‘soft skills’ needed by employers. such as leadership, resilience and communication skills. [Graphic depicting an open badge and the data associated with it, name, URL, criteria, issuer, date and recipient]Representation of the digital nature of open badges. Source: Bryan Mathers.Digital badges are digital...

...students to become more independent in their use of the target language. This course is based on a learner-centred approach to teaching that is is underpinned by a constructivist view of learning – the idea that students will construct knowledge and understanding for themselves as a result of classroom activities and experiences. Now listen to an introduction to this...

...OU we have around 1,300 students who have registered with a hearing disability. The Open University Students Association teamed up with one such student, Joshua Page, and his friend Joshua Sprules to put together some basic BSL tuition to introduce you to BSL. BSL uses a mixture of hand signals, body language and lip patterns to communicate. If you’re practicing any of...