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Sir David Attenborough and The Open University
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough and The Open University

...courses that you can imagine and you only have one lecture room which you can use, and it’s all going to have to go in there. That’s not practical.’ And that led to the realisation that the television was a valuable icing on the cake, but it wasn’t the cake. And the problem would be how you would get Open University lecturers and make them available as teachers to...
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Dominic Ball testimonial
Education & Development

Dominic Ball testimonial

...course was easy to understand and worked well around football. Support from the PFA "We travel a lot, sometimes twice a week for away games, but even in a hotel room you can do your work. I like the fact that I had the flexibility to get on and do my work on flights or at different clubs but keep up with my workload. My brother’s degree was partly funded by the...
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The learning design word wheel
Education & Development

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.
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Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...course of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s as a response to the experience of mass violence after two world wars. And despite their reputation, Germans have a libertarian streak, evidenced by their suspicion towards surveillance. Security has therefore also meant security from the state. This security arrangement now appears under existential threat as a result of these...
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Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...course the subject matter has been revised. The Catholic Church has for years been responsible for the obligatory provision of a course on religion, in not only its own schools, but also in the public school system. Parents will not however have to buy new editions of the Bible, to their relief perhaps and to the chagrin of the publishers, as the 2016 curriculum for the...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...free from political domination and economic exploitation and marked by epistemological and ontological openness. Bibliography Asad, T. (1973) ‘Introduction’ in Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. Barofsky, R. (2020) ‘Rethinking Ethnography: A Study in Public Anthropology’, Anthropology Today, 36(5): pp. 1-2. Harvey,...
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How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...free world has damaged diplomatic relations with Australia by raging against a refugee resettlement deal that had been struck in the dying days of the Obama administration. When Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, called Trump to seek clarification about the deal – which involved resettlement in the US of up to 1,250 asylum seekers held by Australia in an...
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Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?

...course, burnout due to a compressed season may affect players from all nations, as English Premiership teams are multi-national and all European leagues have experienced fixture compression. Being free from injury is one thing, but what about other problems they may have that are less visible. How do they feel physically and emotionally? Are they fresh and ready to go or...
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