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Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...think of a significant project that has influenced your work as a student teacher, teacher, or pupil (e.g. phonics, Nuffield Science)? In the reflection above, you may have thought of something in your subject such as ‘Children’s learning in Science Project (CLISP)’ (Driver, 1994) or ‘Cognitive Acceleration through Mathematics Education (CAME)’, or something...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...think critically about how knowledge is constructed and contested, how we define what is ‘researchable’, and how we know what we know about the world. The project of knowledge-making is, in part, reliant on questioning and critiquing the status quo (Said, 1994, cited in Russell, 1997). New knowledges and ways of thinking can be significantly advanced when accepted or...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...think about a recent challenge in your research or project work. Write down: What happened? How did you respond? What could you do differently next time to grow from this experience?...Building motivation and resilience in research: 1.2 Why research projects are challenging - Unlike structured tasks with clear outcomes, research and creative projects are inherently...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...think it is something that you grow into. I think it's something that, like anything, you can learn the basics. You can learn the basics of skiing, but it's only by practicing it, I think, that you get to understand how you actually navigate your way down a slope or through sludgy snow, whatever it happens to be. And think I've developed my style over a number of years,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...system. Rebecca Earle explains how...What we eat matters to us – but we’re not sure whether it ought to matter to anyone else. We generally insist that our diets are our business and resent being told to eat more fruit, consume less alcohol and generally pull our socks up when it comes to dinner. The efforts in 2012-13 by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban...
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Article 5 mins
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...think about a lot. We know that some areas of Mars have a higher probability of having sustained life in the past. Studying analogue sites on Earth is valuable because it helps us gather information that we can use to develop hypotheses about the habitability of Martian environments. Life has all sorts of survival strategies; on Earth we have seen organisms that survive...
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Article 10 mins
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...thinking in a productive and conducive environment. Rapport is a key part of this process. We can all create rapport with those we instinctively respond to positively: usually with those people who are ‘a bit like us’. The challenge in performance coaching is to be able to create rapport with a wide range of people. How do we do this? How is it that some people seem...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...thinking about what subject you might choose, what you want your talk to achieve, and what audience you'll be aiming at. Let's get started, and watch some experienced speakers, think about how their talks are structured and what makes them work. Marshal Anderson will be your guide through the course. An Open University Associate Lecturer and occasional stand-up comedian,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs