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Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...learning with coaching and mentoring, you will consider theoretical and practical issues in planning and managing learning and talent development programmes in your organisation. You will also explore ideas about coaching and mentoring; both are prominent learning and development tools in contemporary organisations. You will also learn about how different learning...
The learning design word wheel
Education & Development

The learning design word wheel

Are you creating a course? The Open University's Learning Design team have created a word wheel to help shape your planning...[The learning design word wheel] Click on the image above, to launch the interactive full screen.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...Learning in STEM, provides a toolkit for conducting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) within Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). SoTL involves educators using their disciplinary knowledge to investigate a question about learning and teaching, gather evidence in a systematic way, submit their findings for peer review and make the findings...
Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...learning, you will explore some of the technology that disabled students use when accessing computers. We will take a look at the tools and techniques that make it possible for disabled students to engage with online learning...In this free course, Assistive technologies and online learning, you will explore some of the technology that disabled students use when accessing...
Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...learn via spoken interaction? What tips are there for those learning English as a foreign language? ...[Talk button on a phone] Much (perhaps most) of what people learn is through interaction with other people, especially, but not only, those who know more about a topic than they do. This happens from the beginning of a person’s life. It is a natural instinct for babies...
Learn maths in Northern Ireland
Science, Maths & Technology

Learn maths in Northern Ireland

...learning materials will help you recognise how to use numbers in your daily life. Build your knowledge of basic number work, including fractions and percentages and learn how to understand shapes, patterns and measurements. By learning essential maths skills, you’ll be better able to solve everyday maths problems. [Logos: Department for the Economy, Multiply, Funded by...
Busting the language-learning myths
Languages

Busting the language-learning myths

...learning a language but somehow talked yourself out of doing so? Bust some myths and discover the advantages of language-learning...To play: Select a myth, read the testimonials from our mythbusters and then listen to the 'View from the OU' (accessed from the right-hand side of the screen). [An example set of the myths to be busted on a table top] Select the image to...
Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain
Digital & Computing

Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain

...learning through the use of Blockchain technology. Within the £40M budget, the Institute of Coding applied our work to transform how Computer Science is accredited in the UK. This scenario is based on the use of Smart Badges, which are dynamic records of accreditation that follow the same principles as Open Badges and offer the same benefits in recording accreditation....