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Dance skills
Education & Development

Dance skills

...Education from The Open University. She has taught dance in secondary schools, FE colleges, universities and in community settings. Amanda is currently Head of Curriculum for Visual, Performing Arts and Media at Grantham College, and has produced materials for the Open Univerity's Teachandlearn.net, repurposed here for openlearn. Except for third party materials and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Emily Davies

...education was fundamental in improving a woman's place in society and strived for equality. Read her story here... Emily Davies England 1860 - 1921 Higher Education [Emily Davies image] Emily Davies portrait by Rudolph Lehmann, 1880 In mid nineteenth-century England the world of higher education, like many others, was closed to women. Many people opposed the idea of...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 1: Where are you now?: Introduction - Welcome to Week 1 of the free badged course Understanding your sector – and congratulations! You have taken the first important step in thinking about your chosen employment sector, its structure and the factors that affect...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 2: Business models and drones in agriculture: Introduction - Welcome to Week 2 of Developing business ideas for drone technologies. This week focuses on business models and revenue models, or how firms create and capture value. You will look at different types of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What are the benefits of creative play at home?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of creative play at home?

...resources in new ways. This not only supports sharing experiences with others but widens children’s ability to feel able to participate because there are no right or wrong answers and there is no pressure to conform or respond in a certain way. Being creative, developing ideas and turning them into something meaningful relies on making judgements about the value of...
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Article 10 mins
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...Open University's Health and Social Care courses. There are currently around 7,000 people on the UK transplant waiting lists and over 420 people died waiting for a transplant last year (2021). The Organ donation law in parts of the UK has recently changed to an ‘opt out’ system. This should increase the numbers of potential organs available for transplant and help...
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Video 15 mins
Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?
Languages

Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?

...education because parents believe that it opens doors to urban life. But it has also been repeatedly turned down as the potential national language. According to speakers of other languages, the strong ethno-linguistic identity displayed by its primary speakers has acted as a turn off. Secondly, naming Luganda the national language would be viewed as favouring the...
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Article 5 mins
How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Education & Development

How can we improve teaching about Islam?

...educators. As a scholar of Islamic art and architecture, I am aware that for the past 20 years, educators have been trying to improve the teaching of Islam – both in high school and college history courses. The problem, however, is that the teaching of Islam has been limited to its religious practice. Its impact on the arts and culture, particularly in the United...
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Article 5 mins