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Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction
History & The Arts

Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction

...become for a short while “the kind of life that can be told as a story – that is, one in which events appear to have meaning”. As the astounding news breaks that she is to publish a second novel, Harper Lee must be feeling like her life has become a story – a story which the meaning of remains just a little hidden and mysterious. [Harper Lee and George W Bush] The...
iSpot: Your place to share nature
Nature & Environment

iSpot: Your place to share nature

...students in OU courses; and engages the public through face to face and online activities as well through OU/BBC co-productions (see links below). Moving forward iSpot is co-designing services for biodiversity and environmental citizen observations through a European collaboration, exploring human computer collaborations in pollinator citizen science as well as the role...
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...students who lack motivation to read, argues Teresa Cremin, teachers need to aim to make the experience of reading for pleasure ‘authentic, real, and personally and socially relevant to each young reader’...[Illustration of children reading back to back] Reading motivation matters. Far too many young people in our schools can read, but do not choose to do so. They are...
Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...students at these colleges and their comments seem to show that they are making a difference to people’s lives. One study using the feedback from 220 students reported that: ‘Students reported high levels of satisfaction according to feedback forms: 96 per cent students said that the course they attended was “good” or “excellent”; and 97 per cent students said...
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...students wants to become a forest school pedagogue, you talked about kind of assessing their own sense of risk. But how else would a student prepare to enter this kind of professional area? JANE Well obviously you have to like the outdoors, whatever the weather. You have to be playful and creative and imaginative. You have to have many competencies. You have to have...
Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...OU team found that the class reading areas and the sometimes fabulous school libraries were, in all but one of the four schools, simply used as text repositoriesIn recent research undertaken in areas of social and economic disadvantage, in schools renowned locally for their work on reading for pleasure, the OU team found that the class reading areas and the sometimes...
Arts
History & The Arts

Arts

...students...You are not restricted to these suggestions and should select OpenLearn courses to suit your interests and learning goals. To find out what other courses are available visit Free short courses from the Open University | OpenLearn - Open University. [A thick black arrow points to the left to show that you can click here to go back to a previous menu.] Back to...
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Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...OU students also commented on the personal impact of their studies led the researchers to add a sixth conception to the list of five, which was: 'changing as a person'. Many OU students report that they feel differently about themselves as a result of OU study. They often comment on feeling more confident, or on changes in what they do or how they choose to spend ......
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