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A timeline between The OU and the royal family
History & The Arts

A timeline between The OU and the royal family

...Institute of Educational Technology, is appointed as a Regius Professor in Open Education. She becomes only the third person to hold the royal title in the past century. _“I am delighted the Institute of Educational Technology has been recognised,”_ Eileen tells the BBC. “My late parents were both Open University graduates … and would have been thrilled their...
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What Human Rights Day means to me
Society, Politics & Law

What Human Rights Day means to me

...institutions dealing with asylum claims and other migration-related applications accountable. There is resistance to human rights; indeed I have been reminded in my advocacy work that human rights language does not cut the mustard. Having said that, I am unapologetic about the use of human rights terminology in my advocacy work on immigration and integration. The...
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Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...et al. (2008) a survey across five continents with several projects or programmes based in each is described. This research is interesting because it builds on the recognition that the sponsor can be crucial to the success of a project, and it investigated the role of the sponsor and the connection between the sponsor and governance of projects. Crawford et al. make a...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...institution I work for uses a system of synchronous lessons. So the students log in at the same time as I do, and we have a class. We use software, which is called Electa. And within Electa, my students can see my prepared slides. They can hear me talk to them. I can hear them talk to me. And of course, they hear each other as well. They can write on the whiteboard, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...institutions and social processes (such as the state, the national economy, the human personality, the environment and societies) which served as traditional objects of analysis have all undergone or are presently undergoing dramatic transformation, and in some cases are being superseded by new objects and new ways of investigating them. To demonstrate this challenge,...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Harry Potter and death and bereavement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Harry Potter and death and bereavement

...et al., 1996)– a popular theory of grief which posits that us Muggles retain connections with the dead long after they have died. via GIPHY In some ways, Harry Potter’s first experience of bereavement is the polar opposite of the bereavement that is the focus of my own research. Harry loses his parents when he is a mere baby – the focus of my interest is in parents...
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Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...et al., 2017). This last category can include those who are several years beyond their menopause but are experiencing continuing symptoms....Session 1: What are we are talking about?: Introduction - According to the British Menopause Society (2020), menopause is ‘a major life event affecting all women in a variety of ways, both short and long term’. So, what is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...institutions and the wider historical context in shaping art...Art and visual culture: Medieval to modern: 1 Medieval to Renaissance - We begin by considering the production and consumption of art from the Crusades through to the period of the Catholic Reformation. The focus is on art in medieval and Renaissance Christendom, but this does not imply that Europe was insular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs