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Folkestone
Education & Development

Folkestone

...courses to help her better understand her home town of Folkestone, Kent. Her main motivation for this is that she would like to develop a better understanding of the local area. She would consider studying the OpenLearn courses below to help her discover and understand more about the following: The sea and the local weather as I’m keen to spend lots of time on the beach...
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Your OpenLearn profile is changing

...courses in progress, saved items and achievements. [Screenshot of the new OpenLearn profile page. The page shows the user’s profile header labelled “Forename Surname’s OpenLearn Profile.” The left sidebar contains options including My profile, My badges, and My OU life, with an indicator showing the profile is private. The main section describes what the OpenLearn...
Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds
Education & Development

Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds

...course ED841 Understanding children's development and learning... Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds A short introduction to this album. Teaching and learning in virtual worlds Dr Kieron Sheehy of The Open University talks about The Open University presence in virtual worlds. Teaching and learning in the real world Dr Kieron Sheehy of The Open...
How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...course Looking Globally: The Future of Education, in relation to an environmental issue affecting where you live, learners are asked: In response to the key environmental issue(s) you have identified locally, how could your local education system respond? How might you expect your local education system to respond given your awareness of constraints on it? How can local...
Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Kay Lynn Stevens
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Kay Lynn Stevens

Lee Curley and Kay Lynn Stevens compare how juries, trials, and jury research studies work in the UK and in the United States...Find out about The Open University's Law courses. Podcast transcript
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...frees up and mobilizes with one hand what it blocks entry to with the other. Fire and pay walls prevent access from what could be freely available to all, an idea that drove Aaron Swartz to disclosing JSTOR’s database of academic articles. As big data and dragnet surveillance increase the costs of identity, opting out becomes a viable alternative. What lies beyond is...
British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds
Society, Politics & Law

British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds

...free trade with other countries, while remaining within the single market and accepting freedom of movement and some loss of sovereignty to EU institutions, such as the European Court of Justice. To reach this conclusion The Policy Institute at King’s College London, along with RAND Europe and the University of Cambridge, used an economic approach known as “stated...
The learning design word wheel
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The learning design word wheel

Are you creating a course? The Open University's Learning Design team have created a word wheel to help shape your planning...[The learning design word wheel] Click on the image above, to launch the interactive full screen.