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Community Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Community Social Care

...students who attend a mainstream school in the Midlands. From mainstream to segregated Peter White meets a sight impaired student who moved fro mainstream school back into a special school to pursue her A level studies. Disability and Difference The impact of continued research into genetic screening and therapies is debated by people with disabilities and geneticists,...
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Audio 2 hrs 32 mins
Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum

...students, and employers, however, the historical background should be recognised; co-production was first conceptualised to describe the lack of recognition of service users in service delivery (Ostrom and Ostrom, 1977). It is about working in partnership whereby service providers share power with those who receive care and support, to reach a collective outcome. The...
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Article 5 mins
Ms Yang on British and Chinese education
Education & Development

Ms Yang on British and Chinese education

...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 articles below to discover her point of view....
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Article 20 mins
Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!

...students by giving them tests of grammar, logical reasoning and humour. They then gave the results to students and asked them to rank themselves in terms of their position in the class. They found that students who did less well in the tests tended to have inaccurate assessments of their own rank compared with students who performed better. Students with high ......
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Article 10 mins
Support for you and your mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Support for you and your mental health

...student journey. You may also find that studying increases your levels of stress and anxiety, as well as exacerbating pre-existing mental health problems. These difficulties come in many varied forms and can affect you and your studies in different ways. Whether you have a diagnosed mental health problem or not, understanding how to identify when your mental health and...
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Article 10 mins
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...students. And we’re giving them 50 minutes to try and address the needs of that much larger group with a much greater diversity. And then we wonder why pass rates, failure rates are so high. It’s an undoable task without better tools and better support.’ Candace Thille Higher education is confronted with a pretty significant challenge. We're asking faculty and...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...become sufficiently universal that it can be used as a global lingua franca for communication between speakers of many languages. The history of English has traditionally been divided into three main phases: Old English (450-1100 AD), Middle English (1100-circa 1600 AD) and Modern English (since 1600). But it seems that Global English represents a new and fourth phase in...
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Article 10 mins
Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology
Science, Maths & Technology

Ask the experts: Coronavirus fake news & medical terminology

...OU STEM faculty...Organised by Dr. Rachel McMullan, Lecturer in health sciences at The Open University; the following video is a recording of OU experts discussing their research and engagement work around the current COVID-19 pandemic. Transcript The panel consisted of: Dr. Jon Golding - a senior lecturer in health sciences, who discussed the articles he and his...
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Article 10 mins