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Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...educational provision, or to related policy contexts. The benefits might be changes in thinking which can then drive changes in practice. This could be your practice if you work in one of these settings. It could be the practice of others, if you share what you are learning with professionals and volunteers in these settings, either in conversation or through more formal...
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Are you estranged from your family and considering university?
Education & Development

Are you estranged from your family and considering university?

...education studies. They are self-reliant and live independently, sometimes with friends or a relative such as grandparents before or while at university. Support available Estrangement is so much more widespread than you may think. If you are already independent due to estrangement from your parents, or think that is likely to happen before or while you are at university,...
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Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...Education and Mathematics...Working on your own mathematics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: reflect in depth on aspects of mathematics learning, whether personally directly concerned with mathematics teaching or simply interested in issues of mathematics education examine established views about existing practice in a critical way...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...Open University’s Black History Month event in October 2022...Union Black Our Union Black: Britain’s Black Culture and steps to anti-racism short course is part of a UK-wide initiative to tackle racial harassment in Higher Education. In this lecture Lurraine Jones, Deputy Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, shares insights and reflections on the importance...
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Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...Education at The Open University explores whether we offer young writers enough opportunities for ‘writing from the heart’...Our Teachers as Writers research reveals the highly personal nature of much writing. Threaded through our data from the Arvon residential we can see a strong sense of ‘writing from the heart’. In some ways this not surprising; we know that...
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Professional Doctorate Hub
Education & Development

Professional Doctorate Hub

...Open University that promotes the creation and interpretation of new professional knowledge and practice? Discover what a Professional Doctorate offers and whether you are ready to register for this type of degree by exploring this collection of FREE resources...EXPLORE MORE: To discover the locations of EdD programmes in the United Kingdom, click on this interactive map...
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Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...Open University course M811 Information security...Information security: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define what information is appreciate the value of information to the modern organisation understand the CIA triad of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability appreciate the difficulties that arise when valuable information...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Participatory development in action
Society, Politics & Law

Participatory development in action

...education. In the Andean mountains, scarce supplies of water and agricultural challenges give rise to conflict; but the changes engineered by development agencies can start to show a way out of poverty. Meanwhile, Tanzanian rural schoolchildren are instrumental in bringing about positive long-term change within their communities. However, development in practice is very...
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