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Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...Introduction and guidance: What is a badged course? - OpenLearn - Open University You should be able to justify the research decisions you make. Utilising these resources will guide your ethical judgements when writing your proposal and ultimately when designing and conducting your research study. The Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research (British Educational...
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...managed a number of UK and Europe wide projects in schools and was closely involved in the development and delivery of the NOF training programme for school librarians. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Grateful...
Effective approaches to mentoring: what works and why?
Education & Development

Effective approaches to mentoring: what works and why?

...project investigating effective mentoring approaches of student teachers...In the session, participants were engaged and represented a range of backgrounds in mentoring (both within Initial Teacher Education and beyond). The project’s findings showed that a range of approaches to mentoring of student teachers are needed in order to be effective and that these need to be...
Tell us how you learn online
Education & Development

Tell us how you learn online

...project that's keen to discover how people learn online in 2016 - to shape how we all learn in the future. If you've got a couple of minutes, you could help them by sharing your thoughts...We invite you to complete a short questionnaire to help us identify needs, gaps and reasons for learners, businesses and universities to boost their Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)...
Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...project is trying to understand what works to keep people living with dementia and their carers engaging with the walks and outdoor environments. For more information about the research study please visit www.keepmewalking.info​​ website. We know that sustained benefits come from regular engagement with activities (see more in Five Pillars of Ageing Well) but this is...
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...Introduction - In this course, we will focus on learning about, and so developing, skills in using particular inquiry methods connected to conversations and interviews. There are many ways of distinguishing between different methods of gathering information. Look at any book on research methods and it’ll have some subtle differences from another, so there is no single...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Bottled Water
Nature & Environment

Bottled Water

...the effects this has on the carbon footprint, we learn how bottled water is disseminated worldwide. This material forms part of the course U116 Environment: journeys through a changing world... Bottled Water introduction A short introduction to this album. Bottled Water Have you ever wondered where bottled water comes from and what impact this has on the environment?...
The sound of silence
Science, Maths & Technology

The sound of silence

...forms part of The Open University course MU120 Open mathematics... The sound of silence introduction An introduction to The Sound of Silence Waves and harmonics Understand how a musical note is made up by plotting amplitude against time. Recreating sounds We take a trip to the Anglia polytechnic university of music theory to see if we can recreate the sound of a saxophone...