Science, Maths & Technology
Design Hub
Welcome to the Design Hub. Enjoy exploring tasters of OU design teaching materials as well as a wide range of design related articles.
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Digital & Computing
Blockchain in Education
...students travel to different countries to improve their employability prospects. In the networked, digitally empowered world of the 21st century, education providers often do not have remit or in fact the means and capacity to cover the range of activities learners engage with, which demonstrate their achievements, knowledge, and skills. The responsibilities behind the...
Education & Development
Employability Hub
Welcome, in this hub you’ll find a range of FREE resources to help develop your employability. It is searchable by the ten components of the OU’s Employability Framework.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Asteroids
...student in The School of Physical Sciences digs into the research... [City lights - Central America. Elements of this image furnished by NASA] Can a space rock from Costa Rica reveal the origin of water on Earth? Ross Findlay, a Cosmochemistry PhD Student in The School of Physical Sciences, explores different types of meteorites which have landed across our planet....
Education & Development
Parent guide to university applications and beyond
...Student Recruitment Officer at University of South Wales, a parent of two daughters who have attended university recently. They take you through the application process, show how to get started with Student Finance and ways to support your young person with this big step. [University of South Wales logo] This resource was provided by the University of South Wales and is...
Languages
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
...student essays, for example, looking on Google wouldn't be a very good way to go about it. And if we wanted to know if one group of students (for example Engineering students) use 'we' in their academic writing more than another group (such as History students) then an internet search wouldn't be any help at all. To answer the question in the title to this article, we'd...
Education & Development
Creating open educational resources
...students recruited whose first exposure to OU content has been through OpenLearn. It is estimated that several thousand students have now registered with the OU through OpenLearn, generating real value in fees. In addition, inquirers who first use OpenLearn turn out to be more likely to become a student than if they came through other routes such a ......
Science, Maths & Technology
A trip to Mercury
The OU's Dave Rothery recently gave a Tedx talk on what he's learned as part of the team preparing for the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission to Mercury...Transcript