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Rupesh Shah On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Rupesh Shah On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Open University, speaks with Prof. Simon Bell about what systems means to him...Transcript About Rupesh Rupesh is Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Engineering and Innovation at The Open University. He has supported learning about systems thinking at the OU for over 15 years; initially as a research fellow on the PersSyst Project (working alongside Rose Armson in...
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Dying Matters Awareness Week
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dying Matters Awareness Week

...more on our research page. During this year's Dying Matters Awareness Week (8th-14th May 2022), we have curated a collection of free learning content from OpenLearn to open up the subject that many people still find difficult to talk about. This year, we're continuing our reources on being #InAGoodPlace when you die. Take a look at the FREE resources below... Transcript...
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Improve your everyday maths for free
Science, Maths & Technology

Improve your everyday maths for free

...Open University has teamed up with charity National Numeracy to enable everyone to boost their confidence with numbers using the National Numeracy Challenge...[National Numeracy Challenge logo] National Numeracy is an independent charity working to improve numeracy across the UK. The National Numeracy Challenge is a free website to help you check and improve the maths you...
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Sustainability
Education & Development

Sustainability

...Open and Cross-curricular Innovation team. The reason why I really like YXM130 is the flexibility, allowing you to study what interests you from a wide range of subject areas. I have always been a keen environmentalist and been fortunate to support and work alongside the OU academics who author the Environment curriculum. In the current climate emergency, I have selected...
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175 years of women's activism in the EIS
Society, Politics & Law

175 years of women's activism in the EIS

...Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) is today Scotland's largest teaching union. Established for the 'promotion of sound learning and the benefit of teachers', the EIS remains a campaigning, growing and highly effective trade union...Find out about The Open University's Social Sciences courses. On 18 September 1847, around 600 teachers from across Scotland, gathered...
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Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...education by 2020. David Cameron has signalled an all-out attack on poverty and has thrown down the gauntlet to universities to deliver on social justice. He will be aware that many universities already have a proud history of widening participation to students from groups traditionally under-represented in higher education. Disadvantaged youngsters were 70% more likely...
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Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...educational structures, resources, technologies and differing ideas about what it means to be literate. There is a complex interaction between the agency of learners and the structures that shape their educational settings and experiences. In this course, we use the term ‘agency’ to mean all people’s inherent capacity to engage, interpret and make choices within...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...educational resource on children and young people’s mental health. It offers a wide range of free e-learning sessions, one of which is ‘the aggressive/difficult child’. This particular session gives you the opportunity to recognise the signs and symptoms, and possible causes of aggressive and antisocial behaviour and to consider how such behaviour could be handled....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs