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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...open and aware, conscious of inner thoughts and feelings, and how these may drive behaviours that lead to being ‘stuck’. Commitment The ‘C’ (commitment) is choosing (being active) to move in the direction of your values: choosing behaviours that reflect the things that matter the most to you, for the way you want to live and work. See below for more on values and...
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The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU
Science, Maths & Technology

The role of business development in AstrobiologyOU

...educational experiences. Taking a broader view, working with business can open opportunities for our students and researchers that add substantially to the benefits of a university degree or a postdoctoral position. Right now, we’re in the early stages of our business development journey but this is the virtuous circle we aspire to complete. Can you give me some...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...openness. Bibliography Asad, T. (1973) ‘Introduction’ in Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. Barofsky, R. (2020) ‘Rethinking Ethnography: A Study in Public Anthropology’, Anthropology Today, 36(5): pp. 1-2. Harvey, G. (2020) ‘Trans-Indigenous Festivals: Democracy and Emplacement’ in Pike, S.M., Salomonsen, J. and...
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Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain
Digital & Computing

Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain

...education...This article presents a scenario investigated by the QualiChain project for supporting lifelong learning through the use of Blockchain technology. Within the £40M budget, the Institute of Coding applied our work to transform how Computer Science is accredited in the UK. This scenario is based on the use of Smart Badges, which are dynamic records of...
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Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...Open University, the focus of which are teacher education. As a beginning teacher you will almost certainly be preoccupied with survival – planning lessons, classroom management, marking work and meeting targets set for you and your school. Learning to be a teacher involves developing your own teaching personality, which enables you to be the sort of teacher that you...
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What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...education bursaries for students who are carers. Check out the websites of your local colleges or universities. • The Open University provides scholarships for carers, including young adult carers, to obtain university qualifications: Carers' Scholarships Fund | Funding | The Open University • Find out if there are youth or employability organisations in your area or...
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Climate change and the importance of COP26
Nature & Environment

Climate change and the importance of COP26

...Open University both teaches about and does research relevant to climate change. It has more than seven thousand staff and nearly 200,000 students who will be affected by climate change, let alone the millions of learners using OpenLearn. This climate change page brings together existing OpenLearn content that is directly relevant to climate change which you can study but...
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The Arts and Creativity
Education & Development

The Arts and Creativity

...Open University's Art History courses and qualifications. I’m a Senior Manager in the Access, Open and Cross-curricular Innovation team and my favourite aspect about the YXM130 module is that you can use short courses that you have already studied to count towards the module - what a win! When studying this module, you can also continue to explore a range of themes and...
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