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Sgwrs Agored - Wales: Music Nation
History & The Arts

Sgwrs Agored - Wales: Music Nation

...OU / BBC Cymru Wales a gyflwynwyd gan Huw Stephens. Cafodd ei ddarlledu fis Hydref 2022. Yn y Sgwrs Agored hon, mae Huw, Ian Michael Jones, y cynhyrchydd, ac academyddion OU a wnaeth weithio ar y rhaglen yn trafod etifeddiaeth Cymru fel gwlad y gan, ac yn myfyrio ar uchafbwyntiau’r rhaglen iddyn nhw. Cynhaliwyd y digwyddiad hwn ddydd Mercher, 18 Ionawr, 2023, yn rhan...
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People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...OU, looks at how people with dementia might find and express meaning in music...Music can be familiar and meaningful for people with dementia even when their everyday world becomes increasingly harder to make sense of. Singing in a group provides a social outlet for women and men living with the condition and their partners (or other family members). Making music can also...
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Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...students such as age, background, learning abilities, teachers’ approach and expertise. Also, some methodologies such as correlation studies tend to be interpreted in the incorrect way. Below is an example from an educational report by OECD about children and young people’s mental health in the digital age: A small association between social media use and depression...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup
Science, Maths & Technology

The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup

...become marginally more predictable as the disparity between teams increases. However, it seems very difficult to accurately predict outcomes based on which teams were playing better before respective FIFA World Cups. An argument can be made that using rankings does not take into account enough cues. In 2014 Goldman Sachs using a much larger pool of cues only managed to...
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When do children develop a sense of gender?
Education & Development

When do children develop a sense of gender?

...become fixed in children's minds?...Gender is generally thought of as a stable trait: we are born male or female and we stay that way as we grow from small children to adults. It turns out that for young children, initial concepts about gender are quite flexible. In my own research, I’ve found that children don’t begin to notice and adopt gender-stereotyped behaviors...
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What is Applied Linguistics?
Languages

What is Applied Linguistics?

...is, start here...Transcript Want to know more? If you're curious - and feel this could be the perfect subject for you, discover how to study Applied Linguistics as a student with The Open University This video was produced at The Open University with the help of: Zsófia Demjén, Vicky Eves, David Hann, Matthew Holley, Sue Lowe, Barney Savage, Sean Scrivener, Jackie Tuck...
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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

...becoming responsible and agentic members of society (see Apple, 2000; Bartholet, 2019; Lubienski, 2000, 2003). On the other hand, the empirical scholarship broadly supports the idea that home-educated students acquire social, emotional and inter-personal skills and academic outcomes equivalent to or even ‘better’ than their schooled peers (see Medlin, 2013;...
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How can I learn from Who Are We?
Society, Politics & Law

How can I learn from Who Are We?

...OU academics and artists, who have reflected upon commonalities in their research and work on how to explore questions of identity, citizenship and migration in deep and creative ways. On the website we have documented some of the engagements between artists, academics, activists and participants in the event and beyond. Some of these include media materials and image...
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