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Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...busy primary school. A single moment may be filled with a dozen incidents of behaviour, learning and interaction. Primary school teachers and teaching support staff make ‘in the moment’ observations of children, individuals and groups, throughout the school day. Primary school staff will observe what children say and do, and children’s expressions and body language....
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...business and the workplace. We are also leading the way in developing short courses for academic research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...business using their own currency, and have their own history of independence. All this is lacking in the solution of autonomy. (De-Shalit, 1996, p. 916) The importance of ‘giving expression’ to the political aspirations of one's own nation is clearly evident in how important the ‘trappings of statehood’ are – to aspiring states and existing ones. Consider, for...
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...business first, then a personal chat. PROFESSOR MANIK DEEPAK-GOPINATH: So what you are describing there is getting to know your team and getting to know the older people so that you form a community. This must add time to your work. Is that a problem? Joanne. JOANNE: It was in the first place I worked. When I was a cleaner, I actually got told off for talking to the...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...business education, they have these or maybe in certain extracurriculars. They're connected to extracurriculars, or maybe there are certain classes that have clubs attached where kids can work at a school store. And there's a whole host of possibilities in schools if you really look at every single learning experience. But you have to ask questions, talk to the kids...
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...busy working lives. There was challenges surrounding the short listing of the graphs to be used, because we had a wide pool from which to select. There was challenges surrounding the short listing of candidates as well. For each of the 12 participants, we video recorded each of the six learning scenarios. So one of the biggest challenges was distilling each of those...
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...money. But how much does the ISS cost? And how much does research in space cost? There have to be justifications, with arguments for and against this cost, so that informed decisions can be made. This week, you will consider the following questions about space exploration. How do the costs compare with national budgets? Can you trust a reliable estimate of how much it...
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...business into politics. He was up against arguably one of the most credentialed and qualified candidates in presidential electoral history in Hilary Clinton but that didn’t seem to matter. What mattered was the emotional connection he made with a sufficiency of people that leads to win the electoral college, and that was a milestone I think in this whole process. GEOFF...