What is the best way to support people with learning disabilities to access and use technology? This series of seven videos will help you answer this question.
Category: Mental Health
My OpenLearn Profile
Personalise your OpenLearn profile, save your favourite content and get recognition for your learning
Digital
Courses tagged with "Digital"
This course is particularly relevant for teachers,
trainers and educators who are looking for new and innovative methods to teach
and assess learners at a distance when they are not physically in school or on
a campus.
This free course introduces the use of innovative methods
for assessment within secondary, further and higher education. The course is
highly practical in nature and guides educational and training professionals
through the process of introducing flexible formative and summative assessments
that can meet the needs of a standardised curriculum.
The course will be particularly useful for educators who
work in secondary schools and teachers and lecturers who work in further and higher
education colleges or universities. The course provides a practical approach to
introducing innovative flexible assessment methods that are designed to improve
the effectiveness of the assessment.
trainers and educators who are looking for new and innovative methods to teach
and assess learners at a distance when they are not physically in school or on
a campus.
This free course introduces the use of innovative methods
for assessment within secondary, further and higher education. The course is
highly practical in nature and guides educational and training professionals
through the process of introducing flexible formative and summative assessments
that can meet the needs of a standardised curriculum.
The course will be particularly useful for educators who
work in secondary schools and teachers and lecturers who work in further and higher
education colleges or universities. The course provides a practical approach to
introducing innovative flexible assessment methods that are designed to improve
the effectiveness of the assessment.
Category: Education & Development
This free course, Children’s experiences with digital technologies, is an introduction to how children use digital technologies, such as mobile applications, digital games and computers, and what they learn from these experiences. The course draws
on debates about screen time to critically examine and present evidence about the effects of digital technologies on children’s learning and development. It concludes with a set of evidence-based recommendations about how adults (such as parents and
teachers) should engage with and manage children’s interactions with technology.
on debates about screen time to critically examine and present evidence about the effects of digital technologies on children’s learning and development. It concludes with a set of evidence-based recommendations about how adults (such as parents and
teachers) should engage with and manage children’s interactions with technology.
Category: Education & Development
Digital scholarship is a shorthand for the intersection of three technology related developments: digital content, networked distribution and open practices. It is when digital, networked and open intersect that transformational practice occurs. In this free course, The digital scholar, you will explore the impact of digital technologies on scholarly practice.
Category: Education & Development
This free course, Digital literacy: succeeding in a digital world, will develop your confidence and skills for life online, whether study, work or everyday life. It explores a range of digital skills and practices, including digital identity, digital well-being, staying safe and legal, finding and using information and online tools, and dealing with information overload. The importance is emphasised throughout of developing a critical approach to life online, whether consuming or creating information. You will be encouraged to reflect on your own situation and to apply what you learn to real-life scenarios, using a digital skills plan to keep a record of progress.
Category: Education & Development
In this free course, Take your teaching online, you will gain knowledge fundamental to delivering effective teaching online.
You will hear about the experiences of real educators, be introduced to cutting edge research, and understand the ideas and tools that shape how we teach and learn online. You will also learn useful methods that will guide you to test out these new ideas in your own practice.
You will hear about the experiences of real educators, be introduced to cutting edge research, and understand the ideas and tools that shape how we teach and learn online. You will also learn useful methods that will guide you to test out these new ideas in your own practice.
Category: Education
What can current theories about children’s learning and development contribute to the development of new teaching and learning methods in schools? And how are new digital technologies changing the ways children think and learn? This album introduces two elements of The Open University's presence in the virtual world Second Life™ and explores the way in which virtual worlds can offer new opportunities for teaching and learning. The album also explores some of the ways that the theories of Lev Vygotsky have influenced the use of dialogue and language in the classroom and the ways in which children and teachers interact with each other. The interviews and video tracks are introduced and contextualised by Dr Kieron Sheehy of The Open University. The material forms part of The Open University course ED841 Understanding children's development and learning.
Category: Education
In this free course, Take your teaching online, you will gain knowledge fundamental to delivering effective teaching online.
You will hear about the experiences of real educators, be introduced to cutting edge research, and understand the ideas and tools that shape how we teach and learn online. You will also learn useful methods that will guide you to test out these new ideas in your own practice.
You will hear about the experiences of real educators, be introduced to cutting edge research, and understand the ideas and tools that shape how we teach and learn online. You will also learn useful methods that will guide you to test out these new ideas in your own practice.
Category: Education
Please note: As part of a review of content, this course will be deleted from OpenLearn on Sunday 4th of July 2021.This free course, Teaching using digital video in secondary schools, explores the role of digital media as a teaching tool, focusing on video in particular. We will examine the process of how you can start to use digital video in the classroom, and how to manage your project from objective setting, through story boards and filming, to assessing the success of your project.
Category: Education
It is part of a teaching professional's skills to understand the needs of a diverse population of students. This free course, Accessibility of eLearning, introduces the challenges for disabled students who may use computers in different ways when taking part in eLearning or may need alternative teaching methods. It covers the technology and techniques used by disabled students, the adjustments to teaching methods that might be reasonable, design decisions which affect the accessibility of eLearning tools and strategies for evaluation.
Category: Education Careers
Get Online Week is an annual campaign to support those who don’t have access to a device or data to get connected. It has helped hundreds of thousands of people to get online for the first time and improve their digital skills.
Category: Learning
Bring out your creative flair to its full potential. Find some practical advice for advancing your career in a creative industry, whether that's using your keen visual eye, practical ingenuity, or rigorous technical skills.
Category: History & The Arts
Stand out for the right reasons with this free course on personal branding. Learn how to identify your strengths, showcase your skills authentically, and use the right tools to build a professional image that attracts opportunities - whether you’re advancing in your current role or seeking something new.
Category: Money & Business
This free online course, Sustainable innovations in enterprises, introduces you to the importance of sustainable innovations, the role it plays in commercial and social enterprises and the importance to society. It explores cases of sustainable innovations
in specialist areas – arts and humanities; science, technology and engineering; health & social care. The course also evaluates three methods for measuring the societal impacts of sustainable innovations. Learners are encouraged to reflect on their
own experiences of cases where sustainable innovations drive success or failures in enterprises and how the positive impacts on society can be evaluated and sustained.
in specialist areas – arts and humanities; science, technology and engineering; health & social care. The course also evaluates three methods for measuring the societal impacts of sustainable innovations. Learners are encouraged to reflect on their
own experiences of cases where sustainable innovations drive success or failures in enterprises and how the positive impacts on society can be evaluated and sustained.
Category: Money & Business
As part of a review of content this course will be deleted from OpenLearn on 26 June 2017. Similar courses can be found in 'Maths, Science & Technology', under 'Computing & ICT'.
The purpose of this free course, Storing and processing information, is to discuss the main ways in which organisational data is managed, prior to decision-making activity.
Organisations are increasingly dependent on information. However, they must first be able to get at information when it is needed, where it is needed and in the form it is needed. Moreover, this information has to complement the gathering, analysing and communication stages of the information management process.
The purpose of this free course, Storing and processing information, is to discuss the main ways in which organisational data is managed, prior to decision-making activity.
Organisations are increasingly dependent on information. However, they must first be able to get at information when it is needed, where it is needed and in the form it is needed. Moreover, this information has to complement the gathering, analysing and communication stages of the information management process.
Category: Money & Business
With technology advancing and jobs depleting Evan Davis, presenter of The Bottom Line, discusses the role of computers in the workplace.
Category: Leadership & Management
This free course, How teams work, provides an introduction to working in virtual project teams by explaining terms and concepts related to teams and to projects. The complexity of the interaction of people and technology is highlighted.
Category: Leadership & Management
Please note: this course will be closing on 11 May 2022. After this date, you will no longer be able to study the course but if you've already gained your cerficate this will continue to display in your learner profile.
This free course, Knowledge technologies in context, explores knowledge technologies; that is, software systems that can represent, interpret, formalise or interrogate phenomena and create models of how the world works. It demonstrates how a well-designed system can have positive effects on the work 'ecosystem', potentially allowing more time for people to concentrate on their strengths. Emphasising core concepts of representation, interpretation and situated use in context, this course will help masters students and those involved in specifying and designing software for business understand how such systems can help manage knowledge as well as providing a framework for evaluating claims made by technology vendors and researchers.
This free course, Knowledge technologies in context, explores knowledge technologies; that is, software systems that can represent, interpret, formalise or interrogate phenomena and create models of how the world works. It demonstrates how a well-designed system can have positive effects on the work 'ecosystem', potentially allowing more time for people to concentrate on their strengths. Emphasising core concepts of representation, interpretation and situated use in context, this course will help masters students and those involved in specifying and designing software for business understand how such systems can help manage knowledge as well as providing a framework for evaluating claims made by technology vendors and researchers.
Category: Leadership & Management
Mike Lynch uses an example from the legal system to explain how to spot the technology that can change your business.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
"Things can happen with such speed and on such scale, social networking has made a difference"
Category: Business Strategy & Studies