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Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...concepts such as agency, power and authority and context. You will consider some differences between concepts, models and theories and be introduced to some questions that will help you evaluate different educational leadership theories and models...This free course, Exploring educational leadership, provides an overview of the field of educational leadership and...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...concepts, and their connection with learning design, digital innovation and learning analytics. The course, and the innovative teaching tricky topic process which it explores, will be useful for trainee or experienced teachers in schools, colleges and universities, who need to develop their skills in teaching difficult knowledge. It will also be useful for career...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...concept to the fore in police reform efforts across England and Wales. The use of the terms ‘institutional racism’, ‘systemic racism’, and ‘structural racism’ are often used together and sometimes interchangeably to define ‘a system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing...
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Article 10 mins
A brief introduction to co-design
Science, Maths & Technology

A brief introduction to co-design

...concept of co-design: what it is, why it is needed and what role professional designers can play in making it happen. Transcript If you are interested to learn more about some of the methods and approaches used to enable co-design, see the article co-design approaches. Acknowledgements: This OpenLearn page was produced through collaboration between The Open University and...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: The social psychology of citizenship

...concept. It is a concept that has proven to be especially valuable, particularly due to the fact that it is 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...
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Article 5 mins
Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...concept assumes that effective learning requires learners to construct their own understanding of subject matter. Learning, it claims, is most effective when it is constructed through social interaction with other students and teachers. More explicitly than in ‘traditional’ distance teaching, the learner is addressed not as a passive recipient, but as an active...
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Article 10 mins
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...concept of assessment has changed in recent times; and the principles underpinning assessment that support learning and what teachers assess in science. Now listen to an introduction to this course by its author, Sandra Amos: Sandra Amos Hello. I'm Sandra Amos the author of this course. I've worked for many years in science education both as a teacher in secondary schools...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
5 quick tips to boost your wellbeing
Education & Development

5 quick tips to boost your wellbeing

...concepts that are less talked about. They can help us to put in practice many of these more widely known healthy choices, they are simple, and they have potential to become habit forming. These tips have worked for me and many others I've recommended them to. Plus, they link together, offering even more wellbeing benefits! Each suggestion is flexible, so I encourage you...
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Article 5 mins