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How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?
Education & Development

How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?

...writing academically, and asking for help when needed. Thus a range of skills are needed for a module which also has substantial weighting on the degree classification. The module was taught fully online, though students were provided with books and online materials to engage with. Two research assistants from an ethnic minority background conducted semi-structured...
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Week 5 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 5 Civilisations: The debate

...creativity, and new inventions inspired by the revival of Europe's classical past. Recently, however, the Renaissance has become 'globalised', as alternative readings of the art of the period take into account of the interdependencies that bound Europe to the rest of the world. In this episode Simon Schama looks at a wide range of art, architecture, and material culture,...
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Connecting unseen dots
Education & Development

Connecting unseen dots

...creativity, communication and collaboration, which are all underpinned by a more democratic view of who and how we generate new thinking (including children and young people). In response to the final question, Mathew shared some initial findings from his research showing that what young people and students bring into the educational space is often underreported, and...
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Appreciative Inquiry
Education & Development

Appreciative Inquiry

...creative methodologies to disrupt existing narratives, and the importance of storytelling about a ‘different’ future to create collaborations to ‘doing differently’. [A digital brainstorming session on Appreciative Inquiry using virtual sticky notes.]Padlet board of a digital brainstorming session on Appreciative Inquiry using virtual sticky notes. As a group, we...
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Stories from our Black students
Money & Business

Stories from our Black students

...creative commons licence which allows all our content to be re-used for educational purposes if The Open University is credited. More details are available here. Acknowledgements Catherine Comfort would like to thank the students who contributed to the research and who talked about their lives. Their names have been changed and they contributed anonymously to the PhD...
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Careers in Esports
Science, Maths & Technology

Careers in Esports

...creative and quickly expanding industry for anyone considering a future career in this space. We met with Leyla Sabet, Head of Education at educational esports company, EStars, to gain insight into the skills, roles and opportunities shaping the future of esports. Find out more about EStars and The Open University's paid-for CPD course: EStars CPD Programme In Esports....
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Hammering into hearts: How Dilshod Nazarov's Rio victory lifted the Tajiks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hammering into hearts: How Dilshod Nazarov's Rio victory lifted the Tajiks

...writing: Long live Tajik mothers who give birth to sons like Dilshod Nazarov. Well done, mother of Dilshod. Tajikistan, the most remittance-dependent country in the world, has had a torrid few years after an economic crisis in Russia, where over a million citizens live and work, rattled the national economy to its core. The country has enjoyed few sporting achievements...
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The how and why of podcasting: connection, creation and conversation!
Education & Development

The how and why of podcasting: connection, creation and conversation!

...writing doesn’t sound like what’s in my head!’: “I've battled with my assignment most of today and really found myself struggling to get my point across in the way I hear it in my head. This [the podcast] has really helped me relax about it a little and taken away some of the unnecessary pressure I was putting on myself.” “It was like you had climbed into my...
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