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Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...Technology many years ago and the head of that department was Ashley Highfield and he always said, ‘We have to lose control of our content, because by losing control of our content people will take ownership of it and they’ll do wonderful things.’ And over the years we have had various projects where we have released small chunks of BBC archive and we’ve...
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...technology to produce a clear final score. Composers must also deal with the exact timing and synchronisation of their music with details in the film's visual images. Click on the link below to have a look at a section of a score by composer Miguel Mera from the short film The Goodbye Plane. This is a fully orchestrated segment, with references to visual cues. Click 'View...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...educational wellbeing of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. Completing a course will require about 24 hours of study time. However, you can study the course at any time and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do not cost anything...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...education, social care and local government for example – and voluntary organisations, from churches to neighbourhood action groups, who help get things done in the community. The phrase ‘partnership working’ is used to describe a wide range of arrangements and ways of working, from informal networking between individuals, to formally contracted service partnerships...
Як почати навчання онлайн
Education & Development

Як почати навчання онлайн

...education’, The Encyclopaedia of Informal Education [Online]. Available at http://infed.org/ mobi/ what-is-informal-education/ (Accessed 26 November 2015). Office for National Statistics (2015) Internet Users [Online]. Available at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ ons/ rel/ rdit2/ internet-users/ 2015/ index.html (Accessed 3 December 2015). The Open University (2015) ‘What are...
Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...Education's Flexible Learning Fund, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and with the kind support of Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation. This course was written by Middlesbrough College in partnership with West Herts College, Bedford College Group and The Open University, in collaboration with Coleg Cambria, Addysg Oedolion...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...education, literature, history, psychology, and law. It was a little bit like an Open University course in a way. And you had to do a little project. In psychology she did it. And I've got her handwriting here because it's from the archives of The Open University. And it's called 'An Experiment in Prejudices.' And what she did was to ask - because she was also studying to...
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...education in that process. That is interesting and useful. However, the traditional emphasis on the importance of social reformers and legislation should also not be ignored. In fact, this presents an opportunity for work on finding out what happened in Victorian Britain. Such an exercise is suggested in Activity 4. The point about Activity 4 is to direct attention to:...