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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...open to a range of perspectives will give you much more opportunities to develop your skills in presenting arguments and discussing their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, the question should be interesting – for you, of course, but also for those who will read your dissertation or watch your final presentation. The ‘ten words’ technique and exercise. Developing a...
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Setting the scene On 12 August 2022, Scotland’s highest circulation broadsheet newspaper, The Herald, carried a headline exclaiming ‘Nurses set to strike for first time in their history’. While the words made an eye-catching headline, they failed to recognise, and in effect denied, the history of industrial...
How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?
History & The Arts

How did Fidel Castro shape Cuba's history?

...opened up to foreign investment and tourism was encouraged. Both were key for the revolution’s continuation. Now, at the time of Castro’s death, Cuba bears little resemblance to the country he took over in 1959. The excesses of 1950s Cuba have been replaced by a more equalitarian and proud nation. After such a long, extraordinary life, it is inevitable the Castro’s...
Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...open enough to capture diverse types of political action from equally diverse political actors. Analyses of sexual, multicultural, and feminist citizenship, among many others, point to the importance of this concept for understanding and engaging with contemporary politics. It is therefore no surprise that citizenship has been at the core of much scholarly work from...
Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...Open University (OU). Distance learning at the OU already has much in common with the ‘Flipped Classroom’ methodology. The learning resources provided, for example, include a variety of materials supporting independent learning strategies. Students receive materials, prepare independently, and then attend tutorials to discuss. The ‘Flipped Classrooms’ methodology...
Darwin crosses the Sierra de la Ventana
History & The Arts

Darwin crosses the Sierra de la Ventana

...open ocean. I was, on the whole, disappointed with this ascent. Even the view was insignificant;—a plain like the sea, but without its beautiful colour and defined outline. The scene, however, was novel, and a little danger, like salt to meat, gave it a relish. That the danger was very little was certain, for my two companions made a good fire—a thing which is never...
Virtual murder: Just a game?
History & The Arts

Virtual murder: Just a game?

...open letter claiming that the study was flawed. This repeats a pattern; with violent video games, as with pornography before them, it is difficult to show that there is any systematic link between consumption and subsequent behaviour. However, having bad consequences is not the only way something might be bad. Even if it does not lead to bad behaviour, is it a Good Thing...
The Belfast linen industry
History & The Arts

The Belfast linen industry

...1994) Belfast: The Making of a City J C Beckett. Weblinks Irish Linen Guild Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum Interested in finding more out? Social sciences with The Open University. With thanks to: Richard Gibson – Smyth and Gibson, Retailers [Richard Gibson] Bill Crawford – Local Historian [Bill Crawford] Brian Mackay – Irish Linen Centre [Brian Mackay]...