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Festival of Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Festival of Psychology

...student, the presentations may also provide a chance to develop ideas for your own project or research study. Transcript The presentations took place on Thursday 27 January 2022 as part of the OpenTalks series of events run by The Open University in Wales. The event was also made possible by the British Psychological Society. Read more about the speakers and their...
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Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...becomes ‘ero’. Conversely, in other SE words, there is the tendency to overemphasise and pronounce the ‘h’ sound at the beginning of words that do not require it, therefore the SE word ‘egg’ becomes ‘hegg’ and ‘exam’ becomes ‘hexam’. In terms of social status, Jamaican patois falls at one extreme of the linguistic spectrum while SE lies at the...
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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...students have completed online workshops on ocean, earth, pedagogy, and personal development since 1991. With colleagues from the National Geographic, the National Marine Educators Association, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, he helped co-organize the USA ocean literacy...
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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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Transition to Higher Education in Northern Ireland
Education & Development

Transition to Higher Education in Northern Ireland

The hub has been funded by The Department for the Economy to assist new students to prepare for and settle into their studies at universities, university colleges and further education colleges across Northern Ireland. The hub has a range of OpenLearn online materials to help with digital learning, study skills, wellbeing and subject-specific materials.
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National Engineering Day
Science, Maths & Technology

National Engineering Day

...put together some fantastic free resources of the topic of engineering...You can read more about how The Open University is marking National Engineering Day 2024 with a striking new piece of digital artwork being virtually projected onto the OU’s Walton Hall building in Milton Keynes, UK: highlighting the contributions of four inspirational engineers. Discover more...
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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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Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned
Society, Politics & Law

Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned

...OU Economics hosted a seminar with Dr Ayobami Ilori, Lecturer and Staff Tutor at The Open University and Dr Moustafa Chatzouz, a macroeconomist, who leads the data science and fiscal policy modelling branch at HM Treasury. Trailer Watch the trailer below for the seminar, Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned. Transcript Learning...
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