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The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Nature & Environment

The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education

...Resource Pack for Tertiery Education 1994-95 ] Click to view full size Coupled with the expansion of solar and energy storage etc., at east there are encouraging news during these tough times we are currently living in. Hopefully, my Wind Energy educational resources and chapters in our various Renewable Energy courses since 1995/6 have contributed somewhat to this...
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...educational inclusion. This Badged Open Course is part of a collection of training resources for school governors in Wales...Welcome This course provides a brief introduction to the field of inclusive education. You can also access the other courses in this collection: An introduction to leadership for governors and Teamwork: an introduction for school governors....
Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum

...education is well established. Collaborating in equal partnerships via ‘co-production’ can facilitate this engagement. For the purposes of co-production in the educational curriculum, this means that people with lived experiences of using social work services are included as equals within the course team. Resources are recommended at the end for wider reading about...
Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach
History & The Arts

Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach

...resources available here are the outcome of an Open University research project titled ‘Religious Literacy for FE (Further education): A Social Justice Approach’, funded by St Peter’s Saltley Trust. The objective of the project was to develop assets to support the teaching of religious literacy in FE, with a particular focus on challenging the stereotypes, cliches...
Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...resource to be used to enter into higher education or training. Parents were clear they wanted to ensure a balance between exam study and other activities and classes their young people regularly did to give what they often describe as a ‘healthy life-work balance'. _Most people who don't home ed just don’t understand how it works. For us it was definitely not like...
Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...education during the COVID-19 outbreak, this article presents students’ recent views about the place of fun within online learning. ...[online learning undergraduate] Due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, many schools and universities have now closed their buildings, and have moved to learning at distance. Distance education Institutions are also affected, with...
Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...education in the country forever. Liz Green explains...Normally, with the summer officially over and Spain waking up from its self-induced prolonged siesta, protected from anything remotely political, the first notable event is “la vuelta al cole”: millions of youngsters returning to school, or for some at the age of three, suffering their first experience of...
An introduction to the fascinating work and career options open to people with a social psychology qualification
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to the fascinating work and career options open to people with a social psychology qualification

Where can social psychology take you? Here four psychologists tell us about their career journey and other work options open to people studying social psychology...Transcript Interested? To find out more about the OU’s BSC (Honours) Social Psychology and how to apply, visit our qualifications site or try our OpenLearn Social Psychology and Politics Course