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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...world relevance of writing, offering more space to Just Write and more choice, we can increase children’s intrinsic motivation to write and their agency as text creators (whether working alone or in collaboration). This will surely help them recognise that writing is something to do with them. Their identities as writers, their rights as writers and their authorial...
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Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education
Education & Development

Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education

...world view. In light of the enhanced importance of ODL following the COVID-19 global health pandemic, making such pedagogical and relational revisions takes on strategic importance as an element in strengthening the resilience of internationally accessible higher education. Last, but not least, there is an opportunity to develop a shared understanding of the evolving...
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What is Indigenous Psychology?
Education & Development

What is Indigenous Psychology?

...world in ways that are healthy and sustainable both for people and for the planet (Scull, 1999). One of the significant features of ecopsychology is the emphasis on small group, community, with frequent social interaction to change ecologically reliant human behaviour. The major focus of ecopsychology has been on experiential learning aimed at helping people to make a...
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Design and Creativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Creativity

...world. Designers from Philips and IDEO explain how they formulate design plans, conduct market research and make design decisions. This material forms part of The Open University course T211 Design and designing... Design and Creativity A short introduction to this album. New Designs: Charger Harnessing the power of technology: a designer talks about developing and...
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Finite Element Analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Finite Element Analysis

...them with practical investigations. They are disappointed if the results are more than 5% apart from computer predictions. Take a sceptical view The results of CAD should be treated sceptically and require a lot of interpretation and real world comparison. Ultimately the engineer's experience and judgement are more important than information generated via computer models....
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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...world from these people’s points of view; that only then will it be possible to understand what they were intending to do and why, how their actions fit into, and perhaps follow from, what they take to be the reality of their situation, their sense of identity and of past life. What is assumed here is a world in which people have complex inner perspectives that must be...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...world through the study of one of its most distinctive and enduring features: its language.The course approaches the language methodically, starting with the alphabet and effective ways to memorise it, before building up to complete Greek words and sentences. Along the way, you will see numerous real examples of Greek as written on objects from the ancient world...This...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
What does the US election mean for Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the US election mean for Europe?

...world. [Graffiti reading 'don't blame Trump, blame yourself' painted on a Dutch shop window] Graffti reading 'don't blame Trump, blame yourself' in a street in Amsterdam Europe’s support for Clinton Europeans have generally oscillated between incredulity, anxiety, consternation and apprehension when commenting on the consequences of the election. There has been a steady...
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