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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...
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...
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...Open University course S295 The biology of survival. Figure 1 Migration word cloud...Migration: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe some of the migratory journeys made by birds and other animals explain the process of adaptation by natural selection and how this results in evolution describe what is meant by homeostasis, with...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...Open University course E209 Developing subject knowledge for the primary years, relevant to anyone interested in the education of 3 to 11 year old children...Primary science: supporting children’s learning: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: evaluate and advance science subject knowledge reflect upon some key scientific concepts and...
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L193 Rundblick: beginners' German...Beginners' German: Food and drink: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: speak about personal preferences with regard to food and drink order and pay for food and drink in a restaurant use the verbs essen and trinken demonstrate an...
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Peter Lloyd © The Open University Course image: Steve Jurvetson in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Figures 1 and 3: © Peter Lloyd Figure 2: © Steven May / Alamy; WWD / Conde Nast / Corbis; Tom Mackie / Alamy Figures 7, 11, 12, 14b, 18 and 22: © Nicole Schadewitz Figures...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...Source: UN (2013), calculations based on data from Solt, Fredrick (2009). Figure 11 Trends in redistribution in selected countries, 1990, 2000, 2007 and 2011. The debate continues about whether inequalities are best tackled by government intervention or market forces. As the UN (2013) report illustrates, most of the world’s poor, and people in marginalised groups, start...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...open plain. They were very active carrying up straws and feathers to the crevices on the trioliths where the massive imposts rest on the upright stones. I noticed the birds because of their bright appearance: they were lighter coloured than any sparrows I have ever seen, and one cock bird when flying to and fro in the sunlight looked almost white. I formed the idea that...