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First steps towards embedding sustainability in learning design
Education & Development

First steps towards embedding sustainability in learning design

...free resources to help prompt initial thoughts and discussions about embedding sustainability in course design...This page will lead you through the initial steps towards embedding sustainability that we have found effective in our own practice: Be curious Reflection Sustainability competencies Learning outcomes and skills Student voice Reuse Connection Be curious Being...
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...language universal and it means it's something which occurs in all languages. Nick Duffell And one of the things that in psychotherapy and counselling people have learned to realize that in an interaction between two people that you know there exists different levels of the truth. There's my truth there’s your truth and actually somewhere we might meet in the middle. So...
Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...language laboratories and some programmed learning. Technology, Briggs felt, should be employed to enable collaborative learning and he promoted learning methods associated with this idea both at Sussex and The Open University. Interviewed for an Open University broadcast in 1972 he emphasised that he was proud of the radical changes which had been introduced at Sussex:...
Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation
Society, Politics & Law

Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation

...free, much fairer and socially just society. Poverty in Scotland 2016 is published by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland; The Open University in Scotland, Glasgow Caledonian University and the Poverty Alliance, and draws together the expertise of academics, anti-poverty campaigners and other experts from across health, education, housing and local...
What does President Macron mean for Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

What does President Macron mean for Brexit?

...course, was true of his opponent in the run-off vote: Marine Le Pen. Where these two candidates also differed markedly, therefore, was on their attitude to how the UK should leave the EU. During the tetchy drama of the presidential TV debate, Macron was at pains to explain to Le Pen that leaving the EU – which she had threatened to do by calling a British-style In/Out...
Why is the Conservative manifesto the mark of a brave Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the Conservative manifesto the mark of a brave Prime Minister?

...free school meals for infants, means testing winter fuel payments and removing the triple lock on pensions – could easily be described as vote losers. It seems to go against what the Prime Minister said in her very first words from Number Ten; fighting for ordinary families (or the “mainstream” as she called them today), who work around the clock but worry about the...
Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?
Society, Politics & Law

Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?

...free display of affection, but for people in same sex relationships it is still a risky thing to do. Despite progress in our attitudes to gay partnerships, the findings of Enduring Love?, our two-year study into how modern couples maintain relationships, suggest that some among the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning+ (representing other sexual identities)...
Mosquitoes & Malaria
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquitoes & Malaria

...free. To find out more about the life cycle of the mosquito, read the following extract from the second level OU course Biology: Uniformity and Diversity (S204). One of the most widespread infectious diseases of human beings is malaria, which kills more people than any other parasitic eukaryote, mainly in tropical countries. The agents which cause malaria are protoctists,...