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Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research (Vol. 7). Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River: NJ. Robson. C. (2011) Real world research. Wiley: Cornwall. Further reading: Farrow, R., Iniesto, F., Weller, M. & Pitt., R. (2020) The GO-GN Research Methods Handbook. Open Education Research Hub: The Open University, UK. CC-BY 4.0....
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Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...education. This unit looks at how the role has developed across the UK over time and particularly in Wales. It explores the skills and attributes that teaching assistants use to provide effective support and contribute to productive teamwork...Teaching assistants are an important resource in education. This unit looks at how the role has developed across the UK over time...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?

...technology is still in the laboratory stage, the research team is now working with an industry to demonstrate its scalability and effectiveness. Scaling up the process depends on factors such as the existence of an efficient supply chain of waste as well as viable business models “including the availability of capital, expected return and the policy environment,” says...
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Can you harness intrapreneurship?
Money & Business

Can you harness intrapreneurship?

...technology and AI sees the OU’s Digital Skills Lead, Jane Dickinson joined by OU entrepreneur in residence Julian Hall and Capgemini’s Darren Campbell. Transcript Webinar 4: Making a difference – sustainability Finally, OU Sustainability Director Victoria Hands is joined by OU entrepreneur in residence, Alex Cole and green roof specialists, Bridgman and Bridgman, to...
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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...technology may be a main cause instead. Richer, well-educated families tend to have smaller families, and their preference for a son exerts greater pressure on the family to have a boy (The Economist 2010: 79). Again, the case of China might be different because of coercive policies. The sex ratio imbalance has many other negative consequences for society (Attané 2010:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Is Adele's decision to keep 25 off Spotify going to change the music industry?
History & The Arts

Is Adele's decision to keep 25 off Spotify going to change the music industry?

...technology affords, the more complex the patterns of music listening. As reported by the Guardian, a quarter of all songs listened to on Spotify are skipped in the first five seconds. So people clearly know what they don’t want to listen to. But does this active interest in music extend to entire albums? Tech by-product Despite the appearance that digital music...
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How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...technology was based on our work on the earlier UK/German GEO600 detector. This turned LIGO into Advanced LIGO, arguably the most sensitive scientific instrument ever, to give us our first direct glimpse of the dark universe. Transcript A long time ago … What a glimpse it was. The two black holes that collided were respectively about 29 times and 36 times the mass of...
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Video 10 mins
Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work

...technology and going online can be physically and emotionally exhausting. Excessive internet use has been linked to burnout at school. These are just some of the ways that millennials have been increasingly exposed to the same stressors that we know can negatively affect people in the workplace. We know very little about how millennials experience burnout. Early research...
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