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How can digital books support children’s learning?
Education & Development

How can digital books support children’s learning?

...resources and the educational support children get in using the resources. This gap is also apparent for children during illness, war conflict or who have parents in prison. The digital reading format lends itself to the online experience of anytime, anywhere sharing. A unique quality of digital reading is that the text can be customised to suit the child’s reading...
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‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds
Education & Development

‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds

...resources, individual study support, extensions, special circumstances considerations, safeguarding support, computing help, study choice guidance and above all having supportive relationships with tutors. Most participants found final level study more challenging with a big jump in terms of criticality and the amount and complexity of content. They suggested a variety of...
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Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...Human Animal – as well as for major long-running strands and series such as The Natural World, Wildlife on One, Animal Peopleand Postcards from the Country. Vanessa’s films have won multiple awards at numerous international film festivals including the Emmys, Baftas, Jackson Hole Film Festival, Wildscreen, and Missoula International Wildlife Film Festival. Vanessa won...
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Video 30 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Much more than an archive
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Much more than an archive

...human toll this takes. We have found in our conversation that the discussion always extends beyond the Northern Ireland peace process and into that wider world frame. That conversation, like the archive itself, is a work-in-progress. [A selection of photographs from our meetings.]A selection of photographs from the meetings. [A selection of photographs from our...
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Identity In Question
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identity In Question

...to wider cultural forms. Individual, Person and Self The distinctions between the concepts of Individual, Person and Self Legal Personality Exploring the question of why all human beings don't have legal personality. A History of Persons Undertaking a history of persons and exploring what theoretical instruments are needed for guidance, and who can supply them....
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Audio 54 mins
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...human diet. To sustain a healthy human diet, it is not just the quantity of food that is important, but adequate and appropriate nutrition is also essential. For over 800 million people in the world, access to sufficient and nutritious food is a serious problem (FAO et al., 2017). Even though the policies on food focus on feeding 9 billion people by 2050, in reality food...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 1: Understanding social care and social work: roles and services: Introduction - [A social care professional, holding a notepad and pen, sits on a sofa beside a mother and her two children.] This first session is about understanding social care and social work:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...Humanities...An introduction to material culture: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what material culture is understand the origin of material culture as an area of study in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century understand the concepts of 'object biography' and the 'life cycles' of things...An introduction to...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs