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Co-designing professional learning to address evolving challenges
Education & Development

Co-designing professional learning to address evolving challenges

...working. Furthermore, we introduced our most recent development, a cross-Nation eTwinning initiative, a practitioner-led intervention that brings participants and their pupils together in their language learning journeys. We explored what success means in the design and delivery of collaborative PL opportunities as ‘knowing to have helped others; being able to...
Welcome to the OpenLearn Resources for Educators hub
Education & Development

Welcome to the OpenLearn Resources for Educators hub

...working across the secondary, primary and early years sectors, including those involved in home education, special schools and pupil referral units...The resources cover a range of topics including ones aimed at specific subject knowledge development and those targeted at pedagogy, whole school topics or specific initiatives. The resources are offered at different...
Critical thinking – A skill and a process
Education & Development

Critical thinking – A skill and a process

...works. This helps us to be better employees, by reflecting on where processes and ways of working can be improved. It helps us to more engaged citizens, as we are reflecting on political campaigns and their truthfulness and value for us when we are asked to participate in an election. Critical thinking pushes ourselves and our environment to continuously adapt and...
Introducing Health Sciences: Visual Impairment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: Visual Impairment

...Work A demonstration of the software and technology Derek uses in his office Retaining Independence How Derek found the motivation to do training and remain employed. Inequalities of Opportunity Derek highlights the issues that affect the daily lives of people with visual impairment How Contact Lenses Work An ophthalmologist outlines the differences between hard and soft...
Astronomy
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy

...work. Is Our Sun Normal? Astronomers compare events on other stars to helps us better understand our sun. Mapping the Milky Way The discovery of radio emissions from the Milky Way, and the theory of dark-matter. The Shape of Our Galaxy Infra-red satellites. The DIRBE experiment on NASA's Cosmic Explorer opened a new window into the Milky Way. The Scale of Our Galaxy A...
Audio 1 hr 21 mins
The Open University Worldwide
OpenLearn Ireland

The Open University Worldwide

...works in partnership with education organisations around the world, in countries such as Africa, China and Russia. Supported open learning enables universities to offer a high quality education to a large number of students, who have the option to work alongside part-time study. OU Futures How might The Open University evolve with new technology, new trends within the...
Assessment in secondary music
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary music

...work, including making decisions about what is assessed and how it is assessed. Most of all, however, the course will have at its heart considerations of how music assessment can be musical. The course identifies and explores some of the key issues and debates around assessment and music in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates you will...
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...social information’ held by others in the colony. These bees out-compete the directions given by other bees dancing less vigorously. Some more recent studies of bee behaviour suggest that ‘private information’ held by individual bees (e.g. the memory of where they found nectar on a previous foraging trip) is also at play. Guidance given by different team members is...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs