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...Educational Resources (OER), you will look at some institutional OER initiatives. These will include MIT's open courseware, Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative and The Open University's OpenLearn. You will get a flavour of how different OER initiatives design and present the content for their audiences. This OpenLearn course will also give you the opportunity to...

...education for students in secure environments (SiSE) and the challenges faced by SiSE learners..._Find out more about The Open University's Open degree. _ Due to the ‘open’ nature of The Open University it has been able to meet the needs of a diverse range of students. This includes a significant number of students who find themselves in secure environments. Since the...

...Education Conference...The session started with participants sharing words they associated with Relationship Sex Education (RSE). These included inclusive, health, resistance, and contentious. The group agreed with Pilcher’s (2005, p.169) description of RSE as having a ‘contentious character’. [Image of the mentimeter question participants answered at the start of...

...Education’s ‘targeted groups;’ English as an Additional Language, Pupil Premium, Special Educational Needs, School Action. All of which categorically avoided identifying Black and brown students and the need to scrutinise their progress against their white counterparts. Perhaps the policy had similar intentions as my younger self – remove labels of race which...

...Education and Masters in Childhood & Youth qualifications. [ Photo of a man studying and writing] Wherever you wish to take your learning next, there is a course here that can help with that next step. Looking Globally: the future of education and Becoming an Ethical Researcher are OpenLearn Courses both embedded in the OU's Masters in Childhood & Youth (F55) & Masters in...

...education is an investment in future generations. Find out how to engage your strong communication and leadership skills to care for young ones and guide their learning...Exploring careers in childcare and education This short video gives an overview of some career possibilities in early years childcare and education. Transcript Transcript The following videos explore...

...education in Britain and China and reflects on her experiences. ...If you've been watching our OU/BBC co-production Are our kids tough enough? Chinese School you may be interested to hear the Chinese science teacher's, Ms Yang, opinions of the programme, her experience at the school and what she thinks about the Chinese and British education systems. Select from the...

...Education? Sharon Stein explores how to hold space for the difficulties of decolonisation in this article and video...Often in decolonising work, people tend to underestimate just how deeply colonisation shapes our everyday lives, and overestimate our capacity to identify and interrupt it. This is especially true in academic contexts where we tend to assume that if we...