Centre for Human Ecology graduate Helen Jeans has been running an exciting new project which needs participants! Would you like to get involved?
Helen writes: “The Open University is developing a new Internet site to support collaborative learning called SocialLearn. The pilot version of SocialLearn is focused on climate change as part of the Open University’s Learning to Live with Climate [...]
Entries from June 2009
OU Call for Volunteers
June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Examples of Online Learning, General News, Lifelong Learning, Science And Nature
Tags: global warming·research·volunteer
Don’t Underestimate The Love Of Learning
June 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Adult Learning, General News, Lifelong Learning, NCS Courses
Former Education Secretary David Blunkett has come out in defence of the adult need for learning. Writing in the Guardian on Tuesday, Blunkett cites the positive influence of adult learning on performance in the workplace and in the performance of children of adult learners in school as powerful arguments for the support of adults in [...]
New Moon Mission Launched
June 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Astronomy, General News, NCS Courses, Science And Nature
The celebrations of forty years since the Apollo 11 moon landing are heating up and now we have a new moon mission on its way. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took off from Cape Canaveral on Thursday and will photograph the lunar surface in higher resolution than ever before. Images with a resolution of 1 m [...]