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Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...write down ‘Creative’ under a heading called ‘most important’. Discussion Different kinds of work will reflect different values and it’s useful to know what matters to you at this stage, as your needs and wants change as you go through your working life. By focusing on what you’ve identified as ‘most important’ and thinking of work that fulfils this will...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...write your answers in the text boxes provided against each of the activities and refer back to them or edit your answers at any time. You also have the option of downloading your answers by clicking on the link (‘Download your answers for the documents on this course’) that appears on the left-hand side of each course page. The course has six quizzes to test your...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...writing (exploiting technology) and the text could supplement their memory. Either way, a messenger can bring quite a lot of information. If the spread of news is relying on word of mouth, then we can imagine news spreading in the way of the 'office grapevine' today, where one person tells two or three others who each tell another two or three people and so on. The total...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Bowie as a conduit
History & The Arts

Bowie as a conduit

...writes about how Bowie influenced his tastes...[David Bowie Street art in Brixton, South London] I first listened to David Bowie aged fourteen in 1981. He was my first foray outside of the puritanical fastnesses of Punk Rock. Punk joyously declared the music of its immediate forebears dated, dead, overblown: 1977 was a year zero past which you didn’t dare explore for...
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Article 5 mins
Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...writing, fluency over accuracy, and comprehension over production. As teachers, we were impressed by how capable our language students were to take on the role of peer teacher as well as active learner. Implementing ‘Flipped’ principles into our distance language learning module has confirmed to us that distance education already presumes an active form of learning....
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Article 10 mins
Play families: Using toys to open up communication with your child
Education & Development

Play families: Using toys to open up communication with your child

...writing, are not natural for children. Most children have vivid imaginations and acting out their thoughts and feelings through imaginative play is very natural for them. They call it playing! What is the point of this game? You may have heard about experts using play as a therapy with children, but in fact there is no great mystery to this activity. It can be a fun way...
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Activity 10 mins
Ten tips for students starting university
Education & Development

Ten tips for students starting university

...write a CV 9: Avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism [Student looking stressed] Dealing with a lengthy assignment during a hectic part of your life can be tough. Developing good academic practice is essential - our interactive drama 'All my own work' sheds more light on the subject... All my own work 10: Enjoy yourself, but be aware of the impact of alcohol [Three young men...
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Article 5 mins
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...writing” history, our own identity and ideas from our own society are brought to bear. So issues of presentation and interpretation of the evidence are crucial to our investigation of culture, identity and power in the Roman Empire. Introducing the Roman World Discussion The answer to the first of these questions is that Rome saw its role as an imperial power with a...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs