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Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference
Education & Development

Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference

...Education collection!...Evolutions in Education was a conference hosted by The Open University in April 2024. The conference was aimed at colleagues working in the education sector (from early years to further education) across the UK and the goal was to share key examples of external engagement and knowledge exchange work taking place at The Open ......
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Blockchain in Education
Digital & Computing

Blockchain in Education

...education players open campuses abroad, while students travel to different countries to improve their employability prospects. In the networked, digitally empowered world of the 21st century, education providers often do not have remit or in fact the means and capacity to cover the range of activities learners engage with, which demonstrate their achievements, knowledge,...
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...education: Circumstances, processes and practices’, EdD thesis, The Open University, UK. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0001421e Jolly, J.L. and Matthews, M.S. (2020) ‘The shifting landscape of the homeschooling continuum’, Educational Review, 72(3), pp. 269–80. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2018.1552661 Kendall, L. and Taylor, E....
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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...Education: Circumstances, Processes and Practices’, EdD thesis The Open University. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0001421e IPSEA (2021) ‘No-one should be forced into educating at home through lack of support’, say MPs [Online]. Available at: https://www.ipsea.org.uk/news/no-one-should-be-forced-into-educating-at-home-through-lack-of-support-say-mps Maxwell,...
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...Open University's Carbon Calculator was developed for the OU module Environment: journeys through a changing world and is designed to measure the personal consumption-based carbon footprint of a UK inhabitant (if you live outside the UK, see further resources). This calculator starts with all the greenhouse gases emitted in supplying what the UK consumes, including the...
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The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...Education. But what does the awarding gap look like at The Open University and what is being done to improve outcomes for Black and Minority Ethnic students? ...Racial inequality in the United Kingdom (UK) exists and is evident in many ways. Black and Minority Ethnic (BME – see below for an explanation of this term) families are more likely to be poor and in persistent...
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Reflecting on Race at The Open University
Education & Development

Reflecting on Race at The Open University

...Open University...In October 2020, The Open University’s BME network put on over 30 events for Black History month, facilitated by colleagues from all four faculties and other units across the university. One of the events was a full-day online conference, which was focused on Reflecting on Race. The event was opened by Dr Liz Marr, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Students with a...
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Centre for Open Thanatology Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Centre for Open Thanatology Hub

Check out the FREE content from Open Thanatology, The Open University’s interdisciplinary research group for the study and education of death, dying, loss and grief.
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