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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn

...student or a member of staff. To adapt the content to your needs or preferences should be able to:​ change the colours, contrasts levels and fonts resize text up to 200% without impact on the functionality of the website zoom in up to 400% without loss of information or functionality, or the need to scroll in more than one direction navigate the website using just a...
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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...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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...
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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/...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Dangoor Education
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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...
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Our partners
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...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....
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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...
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What is the haka and why is it performed at rugby matches?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the haka and why is it performed at rugby matches?

...students to become successful leaders at school, and in their community. The physical, social and academic attributes associated with learning the songs and actions within a group were very different to the learning they experienced in other areas of the curriculum that were more often didactic by nature. Many students said that performing kapa haka was a way to protect...
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