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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our end-of-course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others. ...Introduction and guidance: Introduction and guidance - Welcome to this free badged course, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM. This free course provides you with a toolkit for conducting...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...class and other social factors (Roos and Gatta, 2009; Johnson, 2018; LERU, 2019). Discrimination operates at multiple levels (Ovseiko, et al., 2016; Easterly and Ricard, 2020): Individual: everyday biases and microaggressions affecting women’s confidence and visibility. Institutional: policies and evaluation systems that undervalue women’s work. Structural: broader...
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Article 5 mins
Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact

...classed as rare diseases, despite being far more well known. How many rare diseases are known? At the time of writing, around 7,000 rare diseases have been described. Over 80% of those affect less than 1 in 1 million people (so they are very rare). However, new rare diseases are constantly being described, so this number is continuously increasing. In the UK, around 3.5...
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Article 10 mins
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...class discussion there was a whole issue of racism, as well as in talk from the head about ethnic diversity, linguistic diversity and so on throughout the school, and I think that those three issues are central to thinking about childhood as differentiated. One of the things to always be the case was that people talked about children as if they were somehow unitary, by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...de Bernières, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Monique Roffey. This enlightening and engaging series tackles the practicalities and pitfalls of writing fiction. It contains invaluable advice on the creation of characters, the structure of narratives and how to turn an idea into the book you’ve always wanted to write. This material forms part of The Open University course A174...
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Audio 54 mins
Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...Forest by Lynn Cherry, pub 2000 Voyager Books; ISBN: 0152026142 El Gran Capoquero: UN Cuento De LA Selva Amazonica by Lynn Cherry, translated by Alma Ada, 1994 Harcourt; ISBN: 0152323201 This page was updated in April 2017 to remove some dead links, include the video tutorials, and to redraft the text to make better sense outside of the context of the original programmes....
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Video 15 mins
Would you want your child to become an interpreter?
Languages

Would you want your child to become an interpreter?

...class parents primarily for instrumental purposes, their status as the “other” languages spoken by “other” people – immigrant Australians from non-Anglophone backgrounds – suggests that the status of language workers is perhaps determined by the status of LOTEs as well as the people and communities who they serve. Examining the status of language workers is,...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...classed, and gendered ideologies of motherhood. A key aim of the research was to find methods that do not assume the importance of migration and the urban in people’s everyday lives. Rather, I leave it to the research participants to determine what is important to them. One of the methods involved asking participants to respond visually to the question: how is it for...
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Article 5 mins