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Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...articles that confirmed the impression of Germany’s innocence. As a result, Germans were convinced that Germany had been attacked and did not start the war, a conviction that would make it impossible to accept the Treaty of Versailles. The statement about God’s support is important, not least because the belief that God was on one’s side was widespread and not...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What this hub is about
Education & Development

What this hub is about

...article...What is it? The OpenLearn Race and Ethnicity hub is a collection of existing and new free resources - articles, videos, audios, timelines and courses - that explore the themes of race, racism and ethnicity across the core faculty areas within The Open University. The hub has drawn on existing content already on OpenLearn, but also includes newly commissioned...
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Video 5 mins
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...et al. (2002) suggest that interpersonal skills may be more important in a virtual team because electronic communication is not as rich as face-to-face interactions. ...Managing virtual project teams: 2 Managing virtual teams - The ability to work together at a distance makes it possible to carry out some projects that could not otherwise be carried out, and to involve...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...articles below hold true or if they are just media ‘hype’. Activity 2 Read the following two pieces of news and answer the questions below. Then you should justify your own position about whether or not playing digital games can harm children and result in game addiction. Article 1 Addictive video games may change children's brains in the same way as drugs and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Weather derivatives - the financialization of weather
Society, Politics & Law

Weather derivatives - the financialization of weather

...at how weather such as severe drought, too much rainfall, unusually warm winters and so on, can be quantified and turned into financial instruments called ‘weather derivatives’, specific financial contracts engineered to enable firms potentially exposed to such weather variables to manage the associated risk to their profitability. Read more articles like this ​...
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Audio 10 mins
Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
History & The Arts

Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press

...article from The Glasgow Herald in 1866 describes a meeting of an anthropological society in Glasgow where a boy of the Bonnu Tribe in Central Africa was exhibited. The boy was bought for £7. Mr Carter Blake, an eminent anthropologist, drew attention to the fingers of the boy which ‘he said exhibited the characteristic attributed to the negro of being partially...
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Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...articles and official reports. Analysing the results – this is when you consider what your findings tell you. Conclusions and recommendations – at this stage you will identify the major learning from your research and make some recommendations based on your results. Figure 1 shows a second approach to the research process. It divides the process into three stages:...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...et al, 2021), shows how different values produce a different school experience. In this study, some leaders who saw themselves as inclusive, priortised the development of teacher engagement with research-based practice. They focused upon student achievement through assessment and the use of resources, whilst aiming to increase teacher capacity and expectations for all...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs