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Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...adapt, as restrictions and guidance changed between 2019 and 2022. Many higher education institutions (HEIs) are reflecting on lessons learned from reactive ways of working during the pandemic and evolving their working practices and policies to consider inclusive and proactive ways of working in a hybrid environment. This free course, which is part of the Supporting...
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...et al., 2017) [iSpot graphs] Figure 1 iSpot’s five-step participation method (adapted from Ansine et al., 2017)...Week 7: Joining an online citizen science community: 2 Using iSpot - Anyone can browse iSpot, but you will need to register before you can start contributing. After joining, you can upload observations of any plant, animal, fungus or other living organism....
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...adapted extract from the Open University course D810 Critically exploring psychology 1 and D811 Critically Exploring Psychology 2...This free course introduces you to critical thinking as a tool for psychology. As you work your way through the course you will learn what critical thinking is, and why it is important to use in the study of psychology. In particular, it will...
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...adapting teaching, the assessment is not formative – it is merely frequent. A summary of the differences between AoL and AfL is provided in Table 2. Table 2 A summary of AoL and AfL ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING Purpose To find out what students know, understand and can do (skills) To find out what students know, understand and can do (skills) Uses...
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...adapt some OER material for friends or people in your family. All in all, we hope this sample material has whetted your appetite to continue exploring OER, and to further your interest in the rich field of technology-enhanced learning. For example, you could study a much larger block of free material, where you can explore several facets of ‘openness’ – including...
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...adapted extract from the Open University course E809 Frameworks for critical practice with children and young people....Working with diversity in services for children and young people: Introduction - If you work with children or young people, whether as a professional or in a voluntary or supporting role, then you will be aware that the contexts in which that work takes...
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...adapt, translate and redistribute. Question 2 How many members are in the OpenCourseWare Consortium? And how many open courses must they each provide? Answer Today there are more than 200 members, each of which has agreed to make at least ten courses available in open form. Question 3 How many of MIT’s OCW free courses have been downloaded from iTunes U? Answer 3.7...
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...adapt you're studying to your interests, to your career, that doesn't demand you get a doctorate or a PhD or study law. You can switch around between courses that interest you. SPEAKER 2 Multi subject students have the benefit of being able to apply knowledge from a range of different subjects to a particular job. So a student, for example, might be interested in working...