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Teaching and learning tricky topics
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This free course was written by Anne Pike, Anne Adams, Gill Clough, Julia Sargent, Liz Hartnett, Ruth McFarlane, Popi Anastasiou, and Jennifer Hart.

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Week 1

Figures

Figure 3 from McCloskey, M. (1983). Intuitive physics. Scientific American, 248(4), 122-130. https://www.researchgate.net/ profile/ Dennis_Proffitt/ publication/ 229706606_Intuitive_Physics/ links/ 0f31753c6a7e3db2bc000000.pdf

Figure 4 from Kabo, J. D. (2010) Seeing Through the Lens of Social Justice: A Threshold for Engineering , Figure 1, A PhD thesis submitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada http://qspace.library.queensu.ca/ bitstream/ handle/ 1974/ 5521/ Kabo_Jens_D_201004_PhD.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Figure 5 courtesy © Gill Clough

Video

Video 1 © The Open University https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 3.0/

Week 2

Figures

Figure 2 courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 3 courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 4 courtesy © Anne Adams

Figure 5 courtesy © Anne Adams

Figure 6 © Jagrutiben Patel/Getty Images

Figure 7 Victor_85/Getty Images

Figure 8 courtesy ©Anne Pike

Figure 9 courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 10 courtesy © Anne Pike

Video

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Week 3

Figure 1 model © iStockphoto.com in adapted Open University image

Figure 4 courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 5 courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 6 courtesy © Anne Pike (excluding OU logo)

Figure 7 courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 8 Courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 9 Courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 10 photograph courtesy © Anne Pike

Week 4

Text

Section 2 Hearing the Student Voice: Extract from Olney, T, Toetenel, L, and Rienties, B., (ed) (2017) Gathering, visualising and interpreting learning design analytics to inform classroom practice and curriculum design: a student-centred approach from The Open University. In Lodge, J., Cooney Harvath, J. and Corrin, L., Learning Analytics in the Classroom. London: Routledge.

Figures

Figure 1 courtesy © Gill Clough

Figure 3 Student Voice Logo https://www.cardiffstudents.com/ your-voice/

Figure 4 © The Open University

Figure 6 courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 7 courtesy © Anne Pike

Week 5

Figure 1 courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 2 photograph courtesy © Ruth McFarlane

Week 6

Figures

Figures 2 and 3 adapted from http://www.bbc.co.uk/ guides/ zsgwwxs#z2nrrdm and other unidentified educational resources

Figure 4 courtesy © Gill Clough

Figure 5 courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 6 courtesy © Gill Clough

Figure 7 courtesy © Gill Clough

Figure 8 courtesy © Gill Clough

Figure 9 courtesy © Anne Adams

Figure 10 courtesy © Anne Adams

Figure 11 courtesy © Anne Adams

Figure 12 courtesy © Liz Hartnett

Figure 13 courtesy © Liz Hartnett

Video

Video 2 Anne Adams for © The Open University https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 3.0/

Week 7

Figure 1 courtesy © Gill Clough

Figure 3 courtesy © Anne Pike

Figure 4 courtesy © Gill Clough

Figure 5 courtesy © Gill Clough

Figure 6 courtesy © Gill Clough

Week 8

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