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Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...education to help promote good child-rearing practices and improve parental supervision...Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency: 2.4.1 Strengths and weaknesses of the ICAP theory - One of the strengths of this theory is that it identifies different factors that may influence future criminal and antisocial behaviour, and how criminal behaviour may have...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...education at the Open University. It can also be used as Continuing Professional Development by individuals or groups of teachers. The authors have many years’ experience of teaching mathematics in the classroom and in Initial and Continuing Teacher Education...This free course, Teaching mathematics, has been designed for non-specialist mathematics teachers of 8 to 14...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...Technology of New Media. [MUSIC PLAYING] On a day-to-day basis, I’m working as a professor in the faculty, but also I’m working on my art practice. I see myself recently as mostly doing generative art. That means I’m, in part, coding systems that, when put in motion, give us various interesting and exciting results. In other words, I’m writing code. And code can...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...educational well-being 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...educational treatise, Émile (1762) as the one book that was to be compulsory reading for the young Émile. This seems to have encouraged the notion that Robinson Crusoe was, above all, a book for children. By 1868 we find Sir Leslie Stephen, in a essay on Defoe published in the Cornhill Magazine, remarking rather condescendingly that ‘Robinson Crusoe is a book for boys...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...educated at home until he was 13, he was sent to a prominent public school, Marlborough. Although he had begun to write poetry at an early age, his expectations – like those of many young men of his generation – were that his privileged life would continue without the need for him to do much more than indulge his hobbies of golf, hunting and socialising. He continued...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...education in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. In England and Wales in 2011, the Tamil speaking-population was said to be 100 689 (Gopal and Matras, 2013) while Dissanayake some years earlier (2008) quoted a community estimate of 150 000. The majority of Tamils are Hindus, with a smaller proportion being Christians and Muslims. Tamils tend to live in extended families,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Languages

Describing language

...technology we use to communicate. These days this often means computers and smartphones, but writing itself is a technology. So is paper, ink and all sorts of other things. Every new technology that comes along alters the way we communicate. Some people take a very prescriptive view of how language should be used, but in reality it’s changing all the time. It doesn’t...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs