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Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...resources, and through dedicated WhatsApp and LinkedIn groups the Hub is becoming a centre for visibility, community, dialogue and empowerment. Why do belonging and mattering have so much importance? Belonging means feeling part of a community; mattering means knowing that your presence and contributions are valued. Together, they create the conditions for persistence and...
How to start a course
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How to start a course

...Statements of participation. How can I contact you? Before you contact us, please bear in mind that we are a small team working with limited resources, so do please check the FAQs first to see whether this answers your question. If you can't find the answer that you are looking for, please contact us at openlearn@open.ac.uk and we will try to respond as soon as possible....
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 2 Identifying tricky topics: Introduction - As you saw in Week 1, tricky topics are the practical application of threshold concepts and their theoretical underpinning. Your understanding of tricky topics will be developed over weeks 2 and 3 by identifying and...
Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...resources that might be useful...Using visualisation in maths teaching: 1. A powerful force for perception and understanding - ‘Imagery is a powerful force for perception and understanding. Being able to “see” something mentally is a common metaphor for understanding it. An image may be of some geometrical shape, or of a graph or diagram, or it may be some set of...
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...human right. These claims are neither controversial nor new. (Cohen, Bloom & Malin, 2006 p. v) However, despite such claims, delivering education based on equality for all people is neither universal nor historically significant, and it continues to compete with a range of other functions (see Table 1). Table 1: Examples of driving forces of compulsory education (based on...
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...human motivation, desire, and the hidden dimensions of psychological experience. Evidence of this movement can be found in both twentieth and twenty first century Irish Gothic fiction and is particularly highlighted in the work of Irish novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Bowen. [Photograph of Sigmund Freud]Photograph of Sigmund Freud - Wikimedia Commons Elizabeth...
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...resources. If you would like to learn more about this project, please contact the OpenLearn site and we will do our best to get back to you. A good place to start looking at our materials is the Preparatory Information section, which gives the aims of the course, plus the timetable. It also contains a number of links to Session commentaries that those who delivered this...
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...resources or activities to the public, patients or clinicians. Includes information about a condition or general health and lifestyle). Simple monitoring (includes general health monitoring using fitness wearables and simple symptom diaries), Communicate (allows two way communication between citizens, patients or healthcare professionals). The final section illustrates...