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What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...creativity? team work? motivation? ethical behaviour? citizenship? responsibility? Ironically, while the UK is looking eastwards, China is looking to the west – and turning to British-style education because Chinese parents find it more creative. Part 2, to be posted after Episode 3 of the series is shown, looks in detail at the results of the tests which were taken by...
Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

...creative and artful resistance to marginalisation. It exploits the creative potential of smartphone tools for digital ethnographic research. Migrants share pandemic experiences in poems, songs, music, photos, short videos, written testimonies, diaries, artworks and blogs. Learn more with OpenLearn [Open Talks from The Open University in Wales] Open Talks is a video series...
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...write r-e-n, ren and you will see the different rens that come depending on what word you want. But we want person, so we click on number 1, or you just type number 1 in your computer, and that will turn into rén. If you want to type number 1 is yī, you just type y-i, and the different characters will come up. And you note this is number 1, so you click on that, and...
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...writing, music, painting that we are interested in, and why they produced it. But it may also mean understanding why one particular form was chosen rather than another: why, for example, did the poet choose to write a sonnet rather than an ode, a ballad, or a villanelle? To appreciate the appropriateness of one form, we need to be aware of a range of options available to...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Open door to success
Education & Development

Open door to success

...OpenLearn image] Free learning for everyone Find out how the partnership started, how the OpenLearn/DWP platform was created, and the benefits of badged courses for jobseekers. Study our free maths and English courses Expert advice on how to write your CV Develop your key skills Try positive development Take your first steps into cyber security Return to formal education...
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...Write a paragraph in your notes to clarify and explain your views...Week 1: How different is a digital childhood?: 1.3 Why is technology so appealing? - [Described image] Figure 4 Why do children find digital technology so absorbing? As Lydia Plowman suggests in the previous section, children are often very engaged by digital technology. But why is it so compelling for...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...write on the whiteboard, and they also have a kind of text chat, which they can use to communicate with me, and also with each other. I suppose you might call that a kind of back channel. It's available within the system. As well as using the classroom software to actually deliver the classes, there's also a VLE, which allows me to store useful resources for my students...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...writing rather than that of the time being studied. In most cases this involves a relationship between the way in which research interests and questions are formulated and the kinds of issues active in the surrounding environment. Crafts and Harley formulated their revision of rapid, large-scale industrial growth in the late eighteenth century against a backdrop of...