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Discovering the dark side of the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering the dark side of the Moon

...and has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in journals of high-scientific standing. He currently chairs the UK-node of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) comprising of over 100 members from 15 UK higher education institutions. In the video below, Mahesh discusses the far side of the moon and why we need samples from it. Transcript...
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...Institute of Social Marketing, faces questions from members of ISM-Open (the Institute of Social Marketing at The Open University Business School) on issues such as the ethics of social marketing, branding and advertising, and the morality of shocking or scaring people into changing their behaviour for the better. This material forms part of The Open University course...
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Blockchain in Education
Digital & Computing

Blockchain in Education

...institution providing quality, credibility, governance, and administrative functions. While the educational institution issues documentation certifying the achievement of major milestones in a degree (including transcripts), students are responsible for preserving and storing the work they had to carry out for their courses (e.g., essays, lab experiments, designs,...
How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?
Education & Development

How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?

...institutional racism (and how this concept is defined) within the police forces, and how to address racism in public institutions, remains highly charged and disputed. The killing of George Floyd in 2020 by police officers during an arrest in Minneapolis in the US, as well as other notable deaths of unarmed Black and other civilians of racially minoritised groups at the...
Ethnicity as a Learning Tool
Education & Development

Ethnicity as a Learning Tool

...institution is facilitating the process of developing alternative learning experiences for ethnic minority students in which their ethnicity can empower their learning experiences, and help them to acknowledge that learning experiences are influenced by the contextual factors such as ethnicity. One example of this alternative learning experience is critical reflective...
Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (Royal Institute for Blind Youth) in Paris and in the audience was the 12-year-old Louis Braille, blind since a childhood accident. Braille had already developed a tactile coding system to enable his blind peers to read and write but recognised both the superior potential of Barbier’s system as well as its shortcomings. (It could...
Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection
Education & Development

Insights into Policing and Racism in the UK – a collection

...institutional racism, and what’s being done about racism in the police...The Open Justice Centre was created in 2016 to leverage the expertise of The OU Law School for the public benefit. It provides opportunities for students to engage in a range of pro bono activities. Since its inception the Centre has worked in partnership with The Freedom Law Clinic (FLC), a...
STiP@50 Celebrations
Society, Politics & Law

STiP@50 Celebrations

...Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Reynolds et al., 2020). The Institute has given approval for a new occupational role and associated Level 7 (postgraduate) systems thinking practitioner apprenticeship (STPA) and the OU launches its own STPA programme in 2022. Led by ASTiP, the Open University was able to celebrate this unique pioneering tradition of...