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An OU researcher will call for educators to consult research evidence to inform their teaching in a talk during Open Education Week (Monday 2 March).

A research project supporting participants from marginalised communities in South Wales to explore heritage and identity through the creative arts has just received funding.

The Minor Planet Centre has just announced that the Earth has been orbited by a second moon for the past three years or so. But while excitement about the discovery is growing, it is important to keep in mind that this moon isn’t as impressive as our main satellite.

Katherine Johnson, who has died at the age of 101, was an amazing woman. But up until a few years ago, hardly anyone had heard of her or her achievements.

Research by an OU academic claims that there are no national progress routes for children with severe or profound intellectual disabilities following the recent withdrawal of standardised assessments.

Most space missions investigate the surface or atmosphere of a body. But NASA’s InSight probe, which landed on Mars in November 2018, is different – it is the first mission dedicated to studying the interior structure of the planet and whether it gives rise to “marsquakes”.

An OU academic is the author of a report released this week (Monday 24 February) which reveals statistics about the number of people who put their lives at risk through sleeping in bins.

A book which traces trends over the past 25 years of educational technology by an OU academic and blogger on the future of education comes out this month (February 2020).

The head that rolled most noisily in Boris Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle was Sajid Javid.

Just over a year ago, courtesy of NASA’s New Horizons mission, we were treated to images of 2014MU69, a small object 6.6 billion kilometers from the sun – making it the most distant object to have ever been visited by a spacecraft.