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Good Academic Practice Collection
Education & Development

Good Academic Practice Collection

...further your understanding. Check out our series of short animations If you are a student studying with The Open University you might want to watch these helpful animations. They explain what plagiarism is, why it’s important to be part of an academic community and things to keep in mind when getting help with writing your assignments. Transcript Transcript Transcript...
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Article 5 mins
Language and Meaning: How We Learn
Languages

Language and Meaning: How We Learn

...communication difficulties In a Chinese University class, a teacher uses examples from signage around the world to illustrate linguistic misunderstandings in translations into English. Multimodal learning This video demonstrates multimodal analysis of classroom learning. Words and images This video demonstrates a multimodal analysis of the well-known fairy tale ‘Hansel...
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Video 26 mins
TESSA: Using Local Resources
Education & Development

TESSA: Using Local Resources

...communities to enrich their pupils' learning experiences. These short dramas portray how different teachers are using local resources and invite discussion on the advantages and challenges of such approaches. The clips in this album are designed to be used to support the development of teachers' classroom practice in both formal and non formal learning situations. This...
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Audio 17 mins
Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Biodiversity

...'fynbos'... Biodiversity An introduction to this album iSpot A guided tour of the key features of iSpot.org.uk, showing how people of all ages can contribute to this database of biodiversity. Fynbos, a floral kingdom Silvertown introduces some of his latest projects, in particular how eco hydrology can improve the water supply to communities in the Cape of South Africa....
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Audio 12 mins
Technology, networks and international order
Society, Politics & Law

Technology, networks and international order

...to the album. Technological revolutions Helen Yanacopulos and Simon Bromley discuss technological revolutions and waves of innovation. The benefits of ICT's Simon Bromley and William Brown discuss the benefits and development of ICT's (information and communication technologies). A global civil society Helen Yanacopulos looks at the idea of a global civil society....
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Audio 24 mins
Succeed with learning Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...communication and problem-solving skills. Thinking [Image of a signpost. The text on the sign is in three lines.] Figure 2 Think ahead Sometimes there does not seem to be enough time to really think about our lives and learning, but Thompson points out that thinking time is an essential, rather than a luxury, for times when you are not busy. If you put some effort into...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...communicative behaviours. We look at the ‘design features’ of language and whether any can be recognised as unique to human languages. We then move on to the disciplines of linguistics and applied linguistics before considering different puzzles that knowledge about language can help to resolve. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...community centres...Religious diversity: rethinking religion: 2 Variety and vibrancy of religion in London - In the 2011 England and Wales Census, 817,000 individuals (or 1.5% of the population) identified as Hindu (White, 2012). But Hindus are not distributed equally across England and Wales. In fact, over half the Hindu population of England lives in the greater London...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs