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Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...study can work alongside professional learning to resolve workplace challenges. ...This content is associated with The Open University's Professional Doctorates (EdD/DHSC) When undertaking a Professional Doctorate, such as the EdD or the DHSC, successful candidates write a thesis which makes an original contribution to knowledge. These degrees are usually undertaken...
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...study of a Good Things Foundation project designed to help people who lack skills in digital literacy: A Place of Welcome Disadvantaged in Leeds developing Skills for Tomorrow As you read the case studies, make notes on the following: identify who each project reaches out to help what are some of the issues that each project helps address? Discussion A Place of Welcome...
Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...skills, tools, resources and short courses to manage and maintain healthy and sustaining professional relationships with your colleagues. ...Workplace relationships A relationship is the connection or association between two things or people. Key psychological aspects of a ‘good’ relationship are mutual trust, respect, commitment and individual responsibility. A good...
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...study in Education, Childhood & Youth qualifications...Play, learning and the brain: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of current understanding of the structure and function of the brain understand and critically analyse the linked concepts of brain-based learning and brain-based education understand the role...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Changing approaches to heritage
Society, Politics & Law

Changing approaches to heritage

...Studies at The Open University. This material forms part of The Open University Course AD281 Understanding global heritage. You can discover something of what it's like to study the course by using the downloadable 'activities' files to explore the concept of ‘World Heritage’, how it is defined, and conflicting interests in its management. You can also learn more...
Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era
History & The Arts

Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era

...studied the Tudors at A-Level, and loved the period, especially the reign of Elizabeth, though I never did (and in some ways still don’t) find Elizabeth herself exceptionally compelling. Over one summer holidays I read J. E. Neale’s biography of Elizabeth, published in 1934 and which is still arguably the best account of her life. I was fascinated by the political...
Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal
Education & Development

Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal

...skills of decoding and comprehension and fostering reading for pleasure.Yet it is possible to build human connections between readers and texts and to make the life-to-text and text-to-life moves which are core to reading in the real world. A balance needs to be wrought between teaching the skills of decoding and comprehension and fostering reading for pleasure. Such...
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...study. My third purpose is to support you in acquiring the skills of assessing the quality of your own diagrams. The case study you will be engaging with is very complex and it would be possible to draw an enormous range of diagrams of each type, each highlighting different features of the situation and each taking a slightly different perspective. This means that, if you...