2,846 search results
Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...students to succeed...[Giving up - an image by Dee Ashley] give.up by DeeAshley Did you get where you intended to in life? Are you as healthy, wealthy and wise as you want to be? If not, perhaps the problem is a lack of motivation. Some studies suggest that motivation – rather than ability or skill – is the best predictor of educational and professional attainment....
View article Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Article 5 mins
The trouble with teaching physics
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trouble with teaching physics

...students with facts to memorise. Students have their own ideas about the world based on their everyday experiences. For example, students sometimes mistakenly think that light and electricity flow like water or that cold is not the absence of heat, but a substance with a physical location that can flow from one place to another. The trouble is that students’ incorrect...
View article The trouble with teaching physics
Article 5 mins
What is a Professional Doctorate?
Education & Development

What is a Professional Doctorate?

...become champions of change within their professional areas. The programmes promote the creation and interpretation of new professional knowledge and practice, thus contributing to the development of new ideas, methods or approaches. Your professional identity as a doctoral student involves being a person who conducts research, produces a thesis and participates in other...
View video What is a Professional Doctorate?
Video 5 mins
Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...students, currently studying with The Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/ choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/...
View course Assistive technologies and online learning
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...become the life blood of the modern world. Given its importance, modern organisations aren’t always as careful as they could be with it. Whether it’s their customer details, details of their business transactions or their intellectual property, information is – almost casually – shared when it shouldn’t be. In this free course, Information security, you’ll...
View course Information security
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Dangoor Education
Science, Maths & Technology

Dangoor Education

...OU) has a mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. We promote educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and fulfil their potential. The provision of accessible education for all is something that David Dangoor and his family, through Dangoor Education, have passionately...
View article Dangoor Education
Article 5 mins
Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...become nearly impossible for teachers to identify texts submitted for assessment that students have produced with the help of online translation tools. And if they do, they usually cannot prove it. Teachers consider the use of translation tools by students unfair on those learners who make the effort to submit their own work. Students who use online translation tools miss...
View article Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Article 5 mins
Our partners
Get Started

Our partners

...OU has received support from the DfE's Flexible Learning Fund to help people develop their skills in English and maths, in association with further education colleges and community partners. Find more information on our Everyday Skills page. In addition, you can find a wide variety of free courses to help you learn new skills or change jobs using the DfE's Skills Toolkit....
View article Our partners
Article 5 mins