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A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...Institute (KMi) of The Open University and a member of the Social Data Science group. His research project is aimed at investigating Intersectionality in Hate Speech Detection with a focus on ‘Misogynoir’ - a unique form of misogyny experienced by Black women with the intersection of sexism and racism. His study explores how misogynoir manifests online and how it...
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...institutions agree it is necessary to track and report this data, why doesn’t the Department for Education? But it goes deeper. After reading lots of books about Islam in 2016 to try and better understand my Muslim students, I tried to ‘get down with the kids’ by listening to Camden-based rap artist Akala. I couldn’t get along with the music, but I read his book...
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Year of the Horse: Chinese Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Horse: Chinese Lunar New Year

...at any time, and they provide digital badges for completion. For further information, please visit the short courses page. The Online Confucius Institute at The Open University holds regular free online public talks in Chinese history, culture and society as well as regular online book club sessions on Modern Chinese Literature. Keep an eye on the Upcoming events page....
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Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...Institutions are also affected, with face-to-face learning activities and fieldwork being curtailed. During this disruptive time, new alternatives need to be provided and many universities are facing the task of developing their online learning provision as quickly as possible, in order to reduce the negative impact on their curriculum and their students study experience....
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Article 20 mins
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...institution. Irish names populated the rosters of clergy across the United States, so much so that the Catholic Irish Priest became a stock character in many Hollywood films in the twentieth century. The Irish Priest in Hollywood Cinema [Photo from "Going My Way".] Hollywood film representations of the ‘Irish priest’ can be used to evidence changing attitudes towards...
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Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...et al., 2009) identified 60 definitions of innovation in organisations alone. In part, at least, these differences are a result of the different concerns of different academic disciplines, the perspectives of different stakeholders in the innovation process and the different contexts in which innovation is considered. Whereas an economist may be concerned with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...institution responsible for policing pollution. The police do not spend a great deal of time patrolling or observing industrial installations. Even if the Environment Agency did get to hear about the discharge by some route would they decide to investigate it? Do they have the resources available to do so? What else could they use those resources for? The enormous cost in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...institution. Inclusive education is about participation and learning from each other. Inclusive education is not a fixed state but an evolving one. Some of the key words that we noted were: rights, participation, process, values, equality, diversity, and change...2. Models of thinking: 2. Models of thinking - In Section 1, you were asked to think about your own...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs