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‘Citizen sensing’ and new forms of environmental monitoring
Society, Politics & Law

‘Citizen sensing’ and new forms of environmental monitoring

...challenge, however, is the need by experts and officials to recognise citizen sensing as a valuable and valid way to investigate environmental change and to engage in more open forms of knowledge-making. Kim Kullman is a Lecturer in Geography and works as a Block Lead on the new module ‘Environment and Society’ (DD213), which will be available for study in 2018....
Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’
Society, Politics & Law

Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’

...studies, novels, poetry, plays and film output. There are in addition countless online resources that explore the events and consider why it was such a volatile period, and why this came to characterise the Clydeside region, and in particular why was it centered on the city of Glasgow. This collection, written in mid-2019, takes the events in George Square, January 1919,...
Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...study-groups for children’s learning—an equitable EdTech response? shows how local community leaders in Zimbabwe have used WhatsApp to recruit and support local Community _Learning Champions _who cocreate and share learning activities with children and caregivers on a daily basis. The team report that this approach is being trialed in 4 of the 9 project districts,...
Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...study how things are, but we need to pay closer attention to the ways that things come into being, for example, new identities, new groupings, new activisms, new ideological and cultural formations. Our final seminar on 14 June will discuss the challenges and prospects for psychology and the social sciences in the era of Brexit. This article was originally published on...
The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...Studies courses and qualifications [Thomas Coryat] In Renaissance Europe, Jews were seen as a threat to Christianity. Jews had been evicted from England in the 1290s, and were forced out of many other European states in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In those few places where they were tolerated, such as Venice, it was under sufferance, and only because they were...
Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...Studies using brain scanning have shown that this part of the brain is especially active during such tests. Being reasonably fluent with words is important for communication. However, being able to produce lots of words very quickly is not a measure of intelligence! Here are some tests to measure your verbal fluency. You will need: a stopwatch, or a watch or clock with a...
Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...study or knowledge. ‘Statistics’ is also a singular word denoting a field of knowledge. The statistician Stephen Senn has defined it as ‘the science of quantitative reasoning’ — of ways of thinking about and working with numerical facts and ideas. But ‘statistics’ has a plural meaning as well. A ‘statistic’ is a numerical fact, or a piece of numerical...
The power of learning analytics to give students (and teachers) what they want!
Miscellaneous

The power of learning analytics to give students (and teachers) what they want!

...book here Can't join in person? Watch the event live online. If you are viewing the event by livestream, please do take the opportunity to have your questions answered by our speakers LIVE during the event by posting in the OpenLearn comments box below this article. Study with the OU: MA in Online and Distance Education Find out more about Professor Rienties' research...