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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...open and interested in receiving text suggestions from the young people, and gradually two-way reciprocal recommendations and ‘books in common’ between teachers and children developed. These prompted discussions and life connections and enabled new relationships to begin. Over time, teachers noticed children exchanging texts too and recognised the value of these...
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Article 10 mins
People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...source of the survey – this turns out to be vital since some of the data is taken from quite narrow sections of the population. The main part of the handbook, which is section 7, uses this format to list data for all the dimensions shown in section 6. If you look at section 5 you will see the data do not necessarily describe the same populations. For example, the age...
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Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Course image: CIAT in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. All other materials included in this course are derived from content originated at the Open University. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...source. Organise – work through the co-ordinated actions of everyone. Integrate – SHE management is a multidisciplinary area embracing scientific, engineering, social and political issues. No individual can be expert in all of these disciplines, but the SHE manager should be able to appreciate the different perspectives and to recognise the trade-offs that are...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...Participants in the audio programme were: John Muncie Professor of Criminology at The Open University; Bob Patison Superintendent with the Newcastle Police force; Andrew Puddephat General Secretary of Liberty (civil rights organisation); Richard Thomas Member of the Association of Chief Police Officers crime prevention sub committee; Richard Sparks Professor of Criminology at the University of Keele and now Professor of ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...Open University course K220 Death, dying and bereavement. Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and dying. If you have been affected by the issues in these videos, you can call Macmillan Cancer Support free of charge on 0808 808 00 00. You can also call Samaritans free from any phone on 116...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 3: Double-entry accounting: Introduction - As you learned in Week 1, accounting is a process that involves: the systematic recording of all relevant financial transactions and events classifying, interpreting, summarising and reporting such bookkeeping data the production of useful information from that data...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...Open University course L301 Language, literature and childhood...Studying children's literature allows us to learn not just about the books that children are reading, but also about what role reading plays in childhood, and how our ideas about childhood affect the books that they read. In this free course, you will be introduced to some of the key questions that the study...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs