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TESSA: Being a Professional
Education & Development

TESSA: Being a Professional

...education take place? 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 material is from the TESSA ( Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa) initiative... TESSA - Viva Umueze Florence wants to take her pupils to a local festival but one parent is upset by the...
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Audio 7 mins
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...educational structures, resources, technologies and differing ideas about what it means to be literate. There is a complex interaction between the agency of learners and the structures that shape their educational settings and experiences. In this course, we use the term ‘agency’ to mean all people’s inherent capacity to engage, interpret and make choices within...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...Technology Studies (ACTS) in Kenya, the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden, in cooperation with the UNFCCC secretariat, and supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to a statement from DIE last month (16 January). Visit the Nationally Determined Contributions Explorer The experts created a database from the (I)NDCs or...
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Video 5 mins
50 years of sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

50 years of sport and fitness

...has rapidly developed since 1969. In this series of articles, we look back at the advances made in technology and sports medicine, successes of British sportswomen, world records and changes in various sports and fitness activites...Discover how sport has changed in the past 50 years Now take a free related course Study with the OU Read more on sports and risk taking...
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Article 10 mins
Why do women need abortions?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do women need abortions?

...Education For Choice Voice for Choice – the UK pro-choice coalition Information for health professionals: The care of women requesting induced abortion. Evidence-based clinical guideline number 7 from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Bish Training for training and resources to teach young people about sex and relationships Sex Education Forum for...
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Video 30 mins
The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars
Society, Politics & Law

The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars

...technology for driverless cars? Who is responsible if the vehicle crashes?...[Google Driverless Car] Oh dear! The Google car has crashed and Google has admitted that it may be their fault. This was in California, but such vehicles could be on the roads of England and Wales in the next few years. Should we be worried? We don’t think so. According to The Highway Code, one...
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Article 10 mins
Improving the everyday lives of carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving the everyday lives of carers

...technologies and get online. ...Find out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. [Image of a young carer and an older person talking] Over a 100 million people in Europe care for a family member or friend. Many of them are caring for an older person and indeed many are older people themselves - caring for a spouse, sibling or parent...
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Article 10 mins
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...technology and writing, and how the development of new technologies alter the way we communicate. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L101 Introducing English language studies...A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how different...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs