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Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...Open University course ME620 Mathematical thinking in schools...Working mathematically: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand some current issues in mathematics education, such as the relationship of mathematics content to mathematics processes understand the use of pedagogical frameworks used in teaching mathematics such as...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...opened body by his friend who was a doctor, who undertook to enact the terms of the will. His head was preserved and mummified, unfortunately not very successfully, and it wasn’t really recognisable so it has been replaced by a wax head. And then the skeleton was reconstructed and dressed with Bentham’s own clothes, and he was put into a pose that’s supposed to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...Open University's London region; Mary McLeod Director of Policy and Research at Childline; Ann Phoenix Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London. Activity 1 Try to identify for yourself, and note down, the various arguments that Mary McLeod and Ann Phoenix make about children and childhood. The following questions will help you to structure...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...Open University course EE814 Addressing inequality and difference in educational practice...Exploring equality and equity in education: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: delineate different understandings of equality in education give some examples of inequalities in different cultures and jurisdictions...Exploring equality and equity...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are otherkin - and how should we view them?

...open and obvious. People upon hearing that we are elves simply do not believe their own eyes and ears. They think that we are joking and we share their laughter.” In the 1990s, with the beginning of the digital revolution, R’ykanadar Korra’ti founded the niche publication Elfkind Digest, initially as a mailing list. “This is not … about role-playing or...
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Article 10 mins
Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...Open University has been looking specifically at how people’s actions create the context of the space in which they communicate. Of equal importance to the influence of the algorithm is what people do with the site, and how they themselves fashion their experience of it. An overwhelming attitude from people surveyed in the research was that Facebook is not ideally...
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Article 10 mins
How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints
Nature & Environment

How we can all tackle our digital carbon footprints

...Open University's Environment courses Shrinking footprints Climate change presents humanity with a series of enormous challenges. Unifying these is a single imperative: to avoid catastrophic climate change impacts by capping global temperature rises to 1.5℃. Achieving this is a monumental challenge, and requires every corporation, government and citizen to make swift,...
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Article 5 mins
Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
History & The Arts

Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them

...opened and, although carbon dating failed, isotopic tests confirmed that the remains were indeed Eadgyth’s. But what’s puzzling is that not all of Eadgyth was actually in the lead casket: her hands and feet were nowhere to be found and most of the skull was missing. What happened to these? Experts at the time of the exhumation suggested that thieves had struck in...
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Article 10 mins