Policy Brief November 2010 UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education GLOBAL TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES TO REFORM EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES CONTENTS: Introduction The forces driving publication and use of open educational resources From open educational resources to open educational practices Impacts on educational systems Recommendations INTRODUCTION Open educa onal resources (OER) have become a major focus of discussion and ac on within
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Birth of a child can be such a happy time‚ especially when the little one is very healthy. We all have seen the movies when a new child is born‚ some of us are lucky to see it first hand. Some of us do get goose bumps‚ me being one of them. It is just so exciting to see that little life come out of what has been in that big belly for nine months. We sometimes refer to the birth of a child as labor. If only it was as easy as the name sounds. However‚ it is not. There are three main stages in birth
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sociologists have a difficult time arriving at a single definition of religion. In Western societies‚ people usually identify religion with Christianity: the belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God who promises salvation through faith and life after death. Yet religion as a global phenomenon presents a much more complex picture‚ because most of the world’s religions lack the core concepts of Christianity. what religion is not: -First‚ religion is not necessarily monotheistic‚ which is the belief in
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Wrongful birth By: Kelly Vaughn In March 2012‚ Arizona passed a bill that will prohibit medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors that withhold information from expectant mothers that may cause her to have an abortion. The bill is not currently a law yet in the state of Arizona but nine other states do have such laws. The states that do have wrongful birth laws are Pennsylvania‚ North Dakota‚ South Dakota‚ Utah‚ Idaho‚ Indiana‚ Missouri‚ Minnesota and North Carolina. A wrongful birth is “
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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 41:3 0021-8308 The Meaning of Meaning in Sociology. The Achievements and Shortcomings of Alfred Schutz’s Phenomenological Sociology RISTO HEISKALA jtsb_461 231..246 INTRODUCTION Theories of social action such as rational choice theories (Abell 2000; Coleman 1990; Elster 1989 and 2007)‚ Weber (1922) and early Parsons (1937) usually build on a conception of an individual actor who is capable to order his or her goals in the order of preference
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TAQ. 9 Why should we care about child poverty in the UK? Poverty means people are unable to live their lives to the minimum standard of the society in which they live. Inadequate income is the overall deciding factor of poverty when basic material needs cannot be met and people are excluded from taking part in their society because of this situation. Third world countries are the stereotypical places that people associate with poverty yet according to The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP‚ 2012)
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Independent Study Does homebirth increase the risk of a negative maternal and fetal outcome in primigravida women than birth in a hospital setting? Word count: 3‚284 Submission date: 5th April 2013 This study intends to examine current evidence and literature on maternal and fetal outcomes in relation to birth setting. The student aims to critically analyse the findings of up to date research studies and make recommendations
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By: Jessica Jones Switched at Birth Essay- 2 hours ( Season Premiere and Second Episode ) ABC Family has just introduced a new TV series titled “Switched at Birth.” It is about two girls that are switched at birth in the hospital. One of the girls named Bay Kennish is in Biology class when she discovers ‚ through a test being conducted in class that she Has a rare AB blood type. Her parents advise her that this is impossible because they are Both Type A. She asks her parents
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Urbanization Trends Urbanization can be defined as the shift from a rural to an urban society‚ and involves an increase in the number of people in urban areas during a particular year. Urbanization is the outcome of social‚ economic and political developments that lead to urban concentration and growth of large cities‚ changes in land use and transformation from rural to metropolitan pattern of organization and government. Natural population increase and migration are significant factors
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commercial or nightlife areas. Sometimes people associate urban tribes with violence. In fact‚ there are some of them which are linked to incidents‚ brutal attacks and social problems; but many of them are inoffensive. Urban tribes born in the UK. Skin Heads: they were born in England in the 60s to combat nationalism. Soon they diverged into two groups: the extreme right-wing and the extreme left-wing‚ and which became strong enemies. They are a violent‚ xenophobic and homophobic group. They
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