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Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning
Education & Development

Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning

...skills of thinking and learning. The speakers are Professors Rudolph Schaffer, Michael Cole, Alison Garton, Vasu Reddy and Dr Suzanne Zeedyk. The interviews are introduced and contextualised by Dr Dorothy Faulkner and Professor David Messer of The Open University. The material forms part of The Open University course ED841 Understanding children's development and...
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Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...skills. Studies have identified five specific ways in which parents talked to children. These had the most positive impact on the children’s development, and their long-term verbal ability: they just talked, generally using a wide vocabulary as part of daily life they tried to be nice, expressing praise and acceptance and few negative commands they told children about...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...skills to the overall health, wellbeing and development of young children explore the relationship between physical growth and development describe the body systems and their relationship to moving and learning identify the appropriate physical/movement activities for each age and stage of development from 0–5 years explore how parents and practitioners can work...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Kinematics of fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Kinematics of fluids

...study of this free OpenLearn course, Kinematics of fluids, should enhance your skills in communicating mathematical ideas clearly and succinctly, expressing problems in mathematical language and interpreting mathematical results in real-world terms. You should now be able to: derive the pathlines and the streamlines in Cartesian and polar form from a velocity field derive...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...skills contribute towards supporting leadership. The course contains views from practitioners in different settings and at different stages in their early years careers. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Education...Early years team work and leadership: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the concept...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...study illustrates what it can be like to be a carer: ‘You know, it’s just that constant sort of presence that I have to be. A lot of encouraging her to eat, encouraging her to wash and do self-care, all round that kind of thing’. Kubiak et al, 2021 This carer’s account describes how caring can be difficult to plan around and disruptive of everyday life (Larkin et...
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The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of breaking as an Olympic sport

...skills. Such suggestions have been made before when skateboarding, BMX and snowboarding were first included in the Olympic programme. The inclusion of breaking is no doubt related to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) expressed desire to broaden the Olympic audience by attracting younger spectators and viewers to the games. The staging of the breaking...
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52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...skills employers increasingly value. Studying making you stressed? We can help you get ‘zen’ in our article, Five Reasons Why You should Care About Mindfulness, and a video on student mental health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large...
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