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About OpenLearn Wales
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About OpenLearn Wales

...profile, you will be able to track your progress and download an activity record. To find out more about how OpenLearn works, please see our frequently asked questions. Study with The Open University For most of our undergraduate courses you don't need any formal qualifications to study with us. With tuition fee loans, financial support, and pay as you go options...
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Dating apps: is swiping right a thing of the past?
History & The Arts

Dating apps: is swiping right a thing of the past?

...profiles, altered and enhanced images, and a general feeling of lack of real connection. Those who are dating are moving to an old school approach: speed dating. This shift is representative of an interest in monogamy by Gen Z, who are also dating less and are more career focused. Those who are dating are moving to an old school approach: speed dating. This means getting...
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How does OpenLearn deal with older content?
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How does OpenLearn deal with older content?

...or directly emailing openlearn@open.ac.uk. When we are raising the profile of an archive piece of content. When external events mean that we expect the piece of content will have increased attention - e.g. the subject of the article is celebrating a significant anniversary. When our analytics show that a piece of content is receiving a sudden spike of attention....
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Palaeobiology: Solving the Riddle of the Gastroliths
Nature & Environment

Palaeobiology: Solving the Riddle of the Gastroliths

...styles of swimming. However, many terrestrial (land-living) animals such as the long necked sauropod dinosaurs, swallowed stones, so gastroliths are not necessarily related to swimming. Sauropods used them to help digest the tough plant matter they consumed – but swimming reptiles ate meat. Some animals without gastroliths had extremely thickened, dense and heavy bone,...
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Preparing tutorials for dyslexic language students
Education & Development

Preparing tutorials for dyslexic language students

...style. If this is the case for their students, teachers can tap their creativity, intuitiveness and ability to see the whole picture. It is also important to discuss with the student how their dyslexia manifests itself, e.g. which tasks they find hardest (probably reading/writing), which they find easiest, which techniques they have tried and works for them and how they...
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Women Writers: Voices in Transition
History & The Arts

Women Writers: Voices in Transition

...styles? For centuries there have been women writers who have changed the face of literature, but we tend to talk of their lives and work in very certain terms. This series of video-slideshows reveals how writing and reputation are often forged in transition, uncertainty and change. In these 4 films we re-examine the lives, work and influence of: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys,...
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...et al., 2022; and Unger Madar and BenDavid-Hadar, 2022). However, it is noteworthy that evaluating the variety of social and academic ‘outcomes’ of home education is challenging. Standardised measures of attainment are not reliable assessment tools because of the bespoke and informal nature of curricula, methods of ‘teaching’ and learning associated with home...
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Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...styles. Such an approach might go some way to reducing the degree awarding gap in the UK, in addition to addressing feelings of exclusion and alienation. Addressing Decolonisation in Higher Education Education has been described as a continuing colonial project which is part of a ‘global colonial power matrix’ that privileges knowledge from certain cultures above...
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