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South Asian young adult carers: Balancing their caring roles and planning for the future
Health, Sports & Psychology

South Asian young adult carers: Balancing their caring roles and planning for the future

...research at The Open University...Introduction Dr. Geraldine Boyle and her colleagues are carrying out research into the experiences of South Asian young adult carers living in England as they transition (or progress) to adulthood. They told us about who they care for, what this involves and how they manage this role alongside family life, education and paid jobs. We...
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Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds
Education & Development

Exploring teaching and learning in real and virtual worlds

...research projects which explore the relationship between language and thinking. A dialogic teacher's perspective Primary science teacher Diane Rawlins talks about her involvement in the dialogic teaching research project, and how her involvement influenced the way she uses talk in the classroom. Group work: social pedagagy and the SPRinG project Professor Maurice Galton...
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Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...research on how this terminology was used in different ways in the Global South and North. Explore how Covid exacerbated poverty, and widened gender and social inequalities. Transcript Commodification of social reproduction The commercialisation of breast milk provision and its trade across borders raises new questions for studies on social reproduction and discourses on...
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What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...researchers Elisha Babad, Jacinto Inbar and Robert Rosenthal provided evidence for the Golem effect “with low-expectancy students of high-bias teachers receiving a more negative treatment and performing less well than any of their peers”. [Models of Golem] Golem models awaiting purchasers in Prague The transformation of teacher expectations into student academic...
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Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...research. I’ve been working with mammalian embryos for over 40 years, with some work in my lab specifically focusing on various methods of cloning cattle and other livestock species. In fact, one of the coauthors of the paper announcing Dolly worked in our laboratory for three years prior to going to Scotland to help create the famous clone. Dolly was an important...
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Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...research programme. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Science...Birth of a drug: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the criteria that must be satisfied before starting new drug development say how an understanding of the pharmaceutical background is a necessary basis for the design of the new drug...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Kay Lynn Stevens
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Kay Lynn Stevens

Lee Curley and Kay Lynn Stevens compare how juries, trials, and jury research studies work in the UK and in the United States...Find out about The Open University's Law courses. Podcast transcript
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Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...research principles. It follows that what is known about a given scientific discipline has the potential to change with the publication of each new piece of research. The publication of new knowledge is not a given. For new knowledge to be published, it has to pass the assessment of peers working in the field (i.e. other expert scientists). Once agreed, this new knowledge...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs