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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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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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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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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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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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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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Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...OU as a lecturer in Systems in 1972. Amongst many significant achievements in the 1980s he was a key member of the team that introduced the use of personal computers into the University's teaching and learning system. In the 1990s, John was lead academic creating the University's first major online course (You, your computer and the Net) which marked the beginning of the...
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Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...OU, Manchester City’s success has not been consistently achieved, and the past 50 years has witnessed many barren seasons when the team failed to win any major trophies and experienced relegation to the third tier of English professional football. Their rise to becoming one of leading clubs in English and European football again is a story that reveals a lot about the...
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