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Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...Open University course BB846 Entrepreneurship: experience and perspective...Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: consider what it means to be ‘an entrepreneur’ examine the role played by an entrepreneur’s family and friends reflect on the narratives (or ‘stories’) that entrepreneurs...
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...source material after source material of the collapse in biodiversity and the collapse in processes in the natural world. In other words, it is becoming a bigger and bigger omnipresent story all over the world and I’m not just talking about the recent release of the World Wildlife Fund report on biodiversity, I’m talking about sources from lots and lots of different...
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...source of immediate weather information. It is interesting that few reports available to the general public include the raw information on cloud classification or a realistic measure of cloud extent, although a simple pictogram is often used to describe the cloud cover...Watching the weather: 1.2 Weather observations - There is a lot more to taking useful meteorological...
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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...Open University course K219 Critical issues in health and wellbeing...Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: outline to what extent a person’s ‘lifestyle’ impacts upon their health and wellbeing describe how psychosocial (i.e. social, economic, cultural and political) factors...
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...Open University short courses for teachers and student teachers...Assessment in secondary geography: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate what it means to make progress in geography outline a framework for assessing progress in geography outline the differences between formative and summative assessment explain some of the...
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...Open Educational Resource Unit Teaching Secondary Modern Foreign Languages – Issues in Practise I'm Maria Luisa Perez Cavana and when designing this unit I drew on my many years in MFL education as a German and Spanish teacher as well as my experience of initial teacher education. Modern foreign languages is one of the most rewarding but also a difficult subject area to...
Doping in rugby union: a case of papering over the cracks?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping in rugby union: a case of papering over the cracks?

...can rugby address the issue of doping at all levels. To learn more about sports and fitness, find videos, articles, games and free courses on OpenLearn. If you're interested in studying Sports and Fitness with the Open University, explore more courses and qualifications we offer in this subject area. This article was first published on the OU Sports & Fitness blog....
What can we learn from Pokemon Go?
Education & Development

What can we learn from Pokemon Go?

...opening up in areas such as game design, media, online marketing and augmentation. This makes Pokémon Go itself a subject for study and for reflection. Already, young entrepreneurs with up to 20 years’ experience of Pokémon hunting are beginning to offer their services as consultants to new game players. Far more people, though, are sharing their expertise freely. As...