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Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...everyday discussions of citizenship. But a moment's reflection should demonstrate how important it is. The vast majority of us will spend the bulk of our adult lives working in some context or another, and our engagement with economic activity more generally is obvious (and not just as consumers). Many young people are also intimately tied up with work. School children...
Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...English crown forces; but the ballad evokes a romantic past in which O’Neill yet rules over Tyrone ‘in high state, with his fair English bride’. The language of the poem is given a ‘Celtic’ flavour by the use of the Scots Gaelic ‘sheiling’ and the Irish words ‘sugaun’ and ‘bawn’. The dialogue suggests spoken idiom of English in Ireland: ‘Poor weeny...
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...English and Welsh speakers, respectively). Transcripts STUDENTS Open University students who use OpenLearn are 5-10% more likely to pass and progress to their next module, than those who do not. Interested in our full course catalogue now? We understand studying after a number of years can be daunting so every new student about to take on an OU module studies a Badged...
Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...English, 2021), warranting additional attention. Many families are opting for home education not for a deliberate choice, but as the ‘last resort option’, especially in the case of children with special educational needs (Gillie, 2022; Kendall and Taylor, 2016; Maxwell et al., 2020). The pandemic schooling experience, related to the COVID-19 pandemic, also served as a...
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...everyday food item contains. As you carry out these experiments you will develop important science-based skills including observation, record-keeping, data analysis and how to control an experiment. After examining your results, you will share them with other learners and discuss your findings. Requirements This free course is intended for anyone with an interest in...
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...everyday maths for free here. Abstract/inductive/diagrammatic reasoning assesses ability to learn new things quickly, plus spatial abilities, by identifying a set of rules and applying them to a new situation, judging how well able to follow information or spot patterns involves a series of slightly different pictures, with a choice of other picture options to complete...
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...English, with their love of brevity and simplicity, call these proud seats the Dukeries, but our affair was not with them, and I shall not be able to follow the footmen or butlers or housekeepers who would so obligingly show them to the reader in my company. I had a fine consciousness of passing some of them on my way into the town, and when there of being, however,...
Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...everyday life in a new light. You will also learn how authors use their own personal histories to form the basis of their work...Do you want to improve your descriptive writing? This free course, Writing what you know, will help you to develop your perception of the world about you and enable you to see the familiar things in everyday life in a new light. You will also...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs