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Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...Children, Sevenoaks, Hodder and Stoughton. The Open University (1988) ME234 Using Mathematical Thinking, Block 1 Investigating Mathematics, Unit 2 Working Mathematically, Milton Keynes, The Open University...Using visualisation in maths teaching: Acknowledgements - This course was prepared for TeachandLearn.net by Ronnie Goldstein and Alan Bloomfield. Ronnie Goldstein was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...centred approach to change, by putting the needs of people at the heart of your initiative and considering more sustainable ways of working. We focus on functional and operational changes that help organisations deliver their strategies, rather than organisational changes, as these tend to be the change initiatives that most members of an organisation frequently...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...centre - the emperor - exercising his powers in Rome and across the provinces. But what about the rest of Italy? How did the emergence of Rome’s empire affect the life-style of places on the Italian peninsula? What other cultural influences impacted on their “Roman” identity? Further a field the Roman empire encountered the long-established culture of Greece, whose...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...research, producing courses and marking exam papers. The Open University also presents itself to its employees, its students and the wider society through its official brand, which appears on internal and external communications, and through its advertising in various media. But The Open University also gives the impression that it is more than the sum of all these parts....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...children's lifetimes. However, when the oil wells run dry is not the key question - or at least not the one likely to affect our or the next generation. Instead, the key question is whether we can produce enough oil to satisfy global demand. Consider Figure 6, produced in 2003 by members of the campaigning organisation the Association for the Study of Peak Oil. The figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)

...Research Challenges Practice and Policy, London, Routledge. Colloby, J. (2013) ‘Support in a mathematics lesson’, in Hancock, R., Collins, J. and Stacey, M. (eds), Primary Teaching Assistants: Learners and Learning, Abingdon, Routledge/Milton Keynes, The Open University. Cremin, H., Thomas, G. and Vincett, K. (2003) ‘Learning zones: an evaluation of three models for...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...research, accident and empathy. Narrator Here, writers discuss how they develop their fictional characters using a mixture of methodical research, accident and empathy. The speakers are Tim Pears, Monique Roffey, Alex Garland and Louis de Bernie`res. Tim Pears My first book was written from the point of view of a 13-year-old girl, and I never felt when I was writing it...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...research operations to a 'ready for servicing' condition and capture attitude, then the aperture door was closed and high-gain antennas stowed. Astronauts on board a Space Shuttle made five gruelling space-walks to carry out the installation work. Once this was completed and tested, both Hubble and the Shuttle were configured for battery charging. When charged, everything...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs