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How does OpenLearn deal with older content?
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How does OpenLearn deal with older content?

...courses and interactives are reviewed by faculty as time permits, then updated, replaced and deleted accordingly. Content has historical/archival value in its own right - simply being 'old' is not a reason to remove a piece of content. We will remove content if: Keeping it online is potentially dangerous (e.g. safety advice has changed since original publication). Keeping...
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Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...Open University initiative finds out...[Older woman and young woman on a hommock next to a lake] It is great for everybody to get outdoors once in a while. But that is not so easy if you are living with dementia living either in community, or in a care home. The Parks Trust in Milton Keynes and The Open University are working together to evaluate a new initiative - 5 Ways...
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Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview
Education & Development

Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview

...Open University guide to referencing. Keep any direct quotations to a minimum (the panel is interested in your words not others’). Before submitting your work The academic panel will pay close attention to the way in which your proposal is structured and written, so take time to write, reflect on and revise your work before submission. Conventions in academic English...
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It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name
Society, Politics & Law

It’s all in a name: why I refuse to use a ‘white’ name

...Open University employee Sudesh Loi gives his views...Before joining The Open University in March 2021, I left my old job of 12 years and decided to take a year out of work as my wife was expecting our second child during the COVID-19 pandemic. I eventually decided to begin the application process but first I needed to dust off my 12+ years old CV and update it. What...
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What Human Rights Day means to me
Society, Politics & Law

What Human Rights Day means to me

...Open University's Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership. He reflects on his own experiences to highlight the fact that human rights are real and not just abstract aspirations...[Human rights sign] I have been working in social justice for over two decades. One of the criticisms of the sector that I do take to heart, is being called a do-gooder. While on the surface it is...
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Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...open sea drawing on a romantic idealisation of the seafaring life central to ideas of British identity. [Henry Wood] William Walton's (1902-1983) overture Portsmouth Point, written in 1925, also invokes a romanticised history of Britain as a great sea power. Walton drew inspiration from a print by the English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Rowlandson's...
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War Memorials
History & The Arts

War Memorials

...space. Our new online course, Heritage, whose heritage? (A180), gives a more fulsome introduction. The two total wars of the twentieth century are the subject of the course Total war and social change: Europe 1914-55 (AA312). We also offer an appealing starter course for budding family historians, which covers some of these questions: Start writing family history (A173)....
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How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?
Education & Development

How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?

...courses offering vocational and applied routes into higher education for students with non-traditional entry qualifications – have dropped by 18%. All this as applications for full-time higher education are buoyant, recovering from a dip in 2012. The fall in the Celtic nations is less pronounced, although Wales has experienced a 24% drop in the last five years despite a...
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