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The age of offence
Society, Politics & Law

The age of offence

...become an integral part of modern life. The news media regularly spark moral panics about the rise of a new McCarthyism, we’re told that universities are suffering from a crisis of academic freedom, politics has become an all-out struggle over competing claims of victimhood, and everywhere people seem to be ever more offended by an ever wider range of issues. So what...
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Video 30 mins
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Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...students are supported to become successful. [MUSIC PLAYING] CHRIS WILSON: Another aspect of staff development that I think is quite important is the extent to which staff who may not be involved in formally developing, crafting, writing, or producing curriculum design-- writing modules, writing programme specifications, therefore may not need to be actively involved in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...becoming a successful student and academic skills can have useful applications in everyday life. Being able to use academic skills in the real world can help you get used to being a student and to see this role as part of who you are – and vice versa...Week 5: Learning tool kit: 1.1 Reading, writing and note-taking - Reading and writing are probably the first things you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...OU course offers a range of different perspectives taking into consideration differences in education systems in the UK and opportunities for learning and teaching beyond the school gates...Supporting children’s learning in primary education today: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the different aims of primary education...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Future Technologies: Designing with vision
Science, Maths & Technology

Future Technologies: Designing with vision

...OU and the University of Leeds is aimed at stimulating and generating ideas for designers, the result could have a global effect on the industries of the future... Future Design Tools This video reveals research into some of the very latest design tools. It shows how eye tracking technology can be combined with shape generation software to create a radically new type of...
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Video 4 mins
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...STUDENTS RECITING] JAMIEL ALEXANDER Ooh, fast asleep after that greeting, eh? NARRATOR Jamiel Alexander became principal of Chapel Street Primary in the mid-1990s, just after the end of apartheid. This momentous societal change is reflected in the way he now runs the school, which is in a deprived area of Cape Town. JAMIEL ALEXANDER The management strategies have changed,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...become instrumental. Protests captured on camera can spark public debate and help trigger political change – as was the case with the Arab Spring...One image of a Syrian child refugee, Alan Kurdi, lying drowned on a Greek beach arguably changed the European migration debate in 2015. Transcript Smartphone cameras have democratised photography. Wherever there are...
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Video 5 mins
Fire and Ice
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire and Ice

...student Anne Forbes as they explore exciting lava formations that have never been reported before... Fire and Ice How are volcanoes created? On a field trip to Iceland, Dr Dave McGarvie visits a range of volcanoes. They include Askja, a spectacular and active volcano in the remote interior of the country - whose evolution he is studying with scientists from Iceland and...
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Audio 14 mins