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Supporting South Asian young adult carers: A guide for social workers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting South Asian young adult carers: A guide for social workers

...Open University (South Asian Young Adult Carers’ Transitions to Adulthood), funded by the NIHR, has been exploring the lives of South Asian young adult carers living in England. The study reveals that these young people balance caring duties alongside studying, fulfilling their family expectations, and pursuing their own aspirations for the future. In this SATTA...
Brains, bots and better learning? What OU students really think about generative AI
Education & Development

Brains, bots and better learning? What OU students really think about generative AI

...Open University invited students in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport to share their personal stories about GenAI and their use of it in assignments, known at The Open University as Tutor Marked Assignments (or TMAs). Ninety-two students responded, offering remarkably honest reflections about their learning practices, hopes, concerns and ethical...
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...open up opportunities for study. You might have not studied for a while, you might be returning to education, or you might not have had the chance to study at a higher level before. This free course, Am I ready to be a distance learner?, will help to boost your confidence. You'll explore useful skills so you can discover how ready you are to study and how to develop your...
Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...Open Education Research Hub: The Open University, UK. CC-BY 4.0. http://go-gn.net/gogn_outputs/research-methods-handbook/ The next article in this series will help you consider ethical issues in your research and in your proposal. Before you move to the next article, the following links will give you some more information about research perspectives, which may be helpful...
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 2: Increasing your knowledge of mental health: Introduction - It may be an obvious statement to make, but increasing your knowledge of the language relating to mental health can increase your understanding and, in turn, this can help to increase your confidence...
How OpenLearn Helped Our Students Succeed
Education & Development

How OpenLearn Helped Our Students Succeed

...Open University study...Every learner’s journey is unique but for many of our graduates, OpenLearn played a key role in helping them build confidence, gain new skills and take the next step towards their goals. To celebrate their success, we spoke to students on their graduation day about how OpenLearn supported their studies. Below you can watch their stories in their...
EDI in research: a collection
Education & Development

EDI in research: a collection

...Education as open to people, places, methods and ideas. The pages drawn together here are designed to cultivate research cultures that value inclusion, innovation and responsiveness. ...In writing these pages, we held to a belief that, ‘The academy won’t change overnight. Nor does change occur through purely demographic shifts. It will only change when standard...
Learning to change
OpenLearn Ireland

Learning to change

...education, but by a continuous process of lifelong learning. The four video tracks show you how to build on what you already know and how to use your skills and qualities to achieve change. They encourage you to consider the opportunities that are open to you and help you set goals for the future. This material forms part of the course Y165, Learning to Change... Learning...