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52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Adults, with the wonderful Bobby Seagull from University Challenge. We’ve partnered with some well-known companies to deliver top-notch learning such as CISCO in our Internet of Everything free course and Money Saving Expert in MSE's Academy of Money. In the wake of heightened concerns over black lives, after George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, and in light of the...
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OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...adults and children in the household? The calculator gives its results in terms of your individual or personal emissions, both direct and indirect. However, household income and a much consumption (eg, heating, vehicle use, the house itself, services like mortgage payments, and hence responsibility for their emissions) is usually shared. The result is emissions per person...
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53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Adults, with the wonderful Bobby Seagull from University Challenge. We’ve partnered with some well-known companies to deliver top-notch learning such as CISCO in our Internet of Everything free course and Money Saving Expert in MSE's Academy of Money. In the wake of heightened concerns over black lives, after George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, and in light of the...
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The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...adult courts too, such as protecting the identity of under-18s (section 45) and even enabling lifelong anonymity for victims and witnesses under the age of 18 (Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999). Equally, article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (1950), incorporated into UK law via the Human Rights Act (1998), guarantees the right to respect...
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One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?
Education & Development

One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?

...adults in lifelong learning, or children from disadvantaged backgrounds – are often assessed against generalised benchmarks that overlook their unique contexts (Baidoo-Anu et al., 2023; Solano-Flores and Nelson-Barber, 2001). In contrast, a ‘social approach’ emphasises the relational and structural factors influencing learning. It shifts the focus away from trying...
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Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...adult learning has occurred at different levels, ie, personal, professional and philosophical. For example, when I recall my decision to ‘return to learn’, I am now aware of how personal and circumstantial factors at the time affected my access to learning opportunities. As I have already highlighted, I had taken advantage of education courses provided by my trade...
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Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...Adults regularly use aspects of logical thinking in their organisation and decision making processes, doing mathematics can develop cognitive ‘muscles’ such as proportional reasoning, pattern-spotting and visualisation. Mathematics lessons have the potential to teach learners how to think, preparing them not only for specific everyday contexts or commonplace careers,...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...adult education. The definition also notes the importance of phonological short-term memory (verbal memory) and reveals a significant correlation between the speed of naming letters and digits and reading ability. Specific learning difficulty: the third sentence defines dyslexia as a specific learning difficulty, not an intellectual deficit. Traits like poor working...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs