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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
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
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
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
Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths
Education & Development

Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths

...think it would be deemed socially acceptable – in fact, most people would be embarrassed to make that claim. So why is it okay to by openly negative about mathematics? Why do so many openly claim to dislike mathematics, and why is mathematics seen as a domain only accessible to an elite group of “smart” people? [An abacus] Research has proven humans are born...
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Article 5 mins
Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...thinking as a postgraduate? Here you will find a number of OpenLearn courses to help with the skills needed for postgraduate online distance learning...[Illustration of people studying, teaching and reading, books and digitally on laptops and mobile] Perhaps you work with children and young people or are a teacher thinking about taking your learning to the next level? Or...
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Article 5 mins
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...Think for a moment on what one or two of these mean to you. You may have thought that ‘Ferrari’ denotes status symbols, ‘BBC’ conjures up solid reliability whereas IKEA has a practical vibe. All of these images and words in the figure are examples of brands. But what makes up a ‘brand’? Isn’t it mainly about the colours and logo? Where does language fit in?...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs