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Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. After completing this course, you will be able to: show knowledge of how to plan and carry out sensitive observation and information gathering appropriate to educational settings use appropriate small-scale research methods to understand and support children’s learning understand...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Make a changing world a better place
Science, Maths & Technology

Make a changing world a better place

...skills and the job opportunities available to them. OpenLearn is home to a large range of technology courses which allow individuals to enhance their understanding of all aspects of technology, from very specific specialist training for IT professionals to broader more general courses for those looking to gain an insight into the industry. Here is a selection of courses...
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Article 10 mins
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...studies on social reproduction and discourses on motherhood and child development. In this video Dr Michal Nahman explores the motivation behind the research on commercial human milk chain in India, and how this led her and her co-author, Professor Newman, onto the curation of the ‘This is Essential Work’ exhibition. Transcript This is essential work Artists from the...
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Video 5 mins
What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?
Nature & Environment

What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?

...studies have claimed that these multiple demands on our attention are impacting on our ability to concentrate and connect with people. Animals in the wild also face similar challenges. All animals have only a limited amount of attention, and it must be shared between an array of tasks, including locating food, maintaining social bonds and keeping a watchful eye out for...
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Article 5 mins
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...studied geometry, optics and perspective and also learnt the technical skills of foundry and metalwork. 1470 - 1473 Verrocchio was commissioned to paint Baptism of Christ. This is the first evidence of a Leonardo painting, on which he assisted while still in Verrocchio’s studio. He painted the angel on the extreme left of the picture. Verrocchio painted in tempera,...
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Article 30 mins
Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach
History & The Arts

Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach

...studies specialists. The workshops embedded the principle of co-design to support the development of these OpenLearn assets, the first of which explains what religious literacy is, while the second explores what it might look like in a science teaching setting. Religious literacy film Transcript Religious literacy is not the same as the knowledge and familiarity that a...
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Video 10 mins
Volunteering Free Courses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Volunteering Free Courses

Expand your skills and knowledge and open the door to new opportunities in the world of volunteering.
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Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...skills is to make yourself aware of the process. The following activity should help you tune into it. Activity 1 Reflection on today Timing: Allow about 20 minutes for this activity. Start with an actual experience from today; give it a title in your learning journal and then note down a brief answer to each of the following four questions. The last question perhaps is...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs