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Jan 23

Student Hub Live: Effective academic communication

Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:00

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Join Student Hub Live to learn about some simple techniques to help you explain your ideas in terms your peers and tutors will understand.

Jan 21

Student Hub Live: Well-being for students

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:00

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In this special Student Hub Live Connect event, we will be joined by guests who will share their experiences and offer practical advice on how to care for your body and mind so you can do justice to your studies. 

Jan 16

Student Hub Live: OU Essentials

Thursday, January 16, 2025 - 19:00 to 20:00

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Our quiz-based OU Essentials session is an opportunity to get to know some of those essential (and not so essential) things about the OU. 

Jan 14

Student Hub Live: Making use of digital tools and apps for study

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - 16:00 to 16:45

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This brand-new workshop will be sharing ideas of digital tools and apps that support students, including those provided by the OU.

Jan 9

Student Hub Live: Managing your time better

Thursday, January 9, 2025 - 11:00 to 12:30

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In this popular SHL workshop you'll learn techniques and frameworks to help you plan and manage your workload more effectively.

Dec 18

Student Hub Live: SHL Christmas Party!

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00

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Join the Student Hub Live Christmas social event where there will be games, quizzes, and our very own rock band to have a Christmas singalong.

Dec 10

Student Hub Live: Keeping motivation when everyone else is winding down

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00

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This brand new Student Hub Live Connect Live session will look at ideas for maintaining your motivation.

Dec 5

Student Hub Live: Learning from feedback

Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00

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In this workshop you'll pick up new ideas, discuss your experiences and see how other students use feedback in the most effective ways.

Dec 3

Student Hub Live: Power reading: boost your reading skills

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 19:00 to 20:30

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Join this Student Hub Live session to work thorough proven techniques that will help you remember more of what you read and become a much more effective reader.

Nov 29

Conference - Legal history in unexpected places

Friday, November 29, 2024 - 10:00 to 17:00

Online

This online conference explores how historians look far beyond legal papers, often venturing into unexpected places – whether geographical, archival, theoretical or interdisciplinary.

Nov 28

Student Hub Live: Memory and Learning: making the connections

Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 19:00 to 20:00

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This session will cover different ways of thinking about memory and understanding to help you make the connections you need to be a fantastic learner.

Nov 26

Student Hub Live: Support and wellbeing for student carers

Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:30

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Our session will help unpaid carers discover what support might be available in your local area and what support is available from The Open University.

Nov 21

Student Hub Live: Studying with disability: building on good foundations

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 16:00 to 17:15

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In this, the first of a new suite of community workshops, we will be discussing the experiences of studying with disabilities with a student guest. 

Nov 14

Student Hub Live: Creative problem-solving: techniques for success

Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 19:00 to 20:00

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This session will introduce the creative problem-solving cycle and the steps people take to solve problems. It will give you some ideas on how you can jumpstart your creativity by using tools to help each part of the cycle. 

Nov 12

Student Hub Live: Cyber security: information security and keeping safe online

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:30

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In this session we will be talking with IT security experts from the Open University to look at some of the cyber threats that exist and we will hear about some helpful tips on how to protect ourselves when working online. 

Nov 7

Student Hub Live: Mastering essay planning (Advanced)

Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00

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This workshop is aimed at Level 3 and postgraduate students who have written numerous essays and want to give them those final ‘finishing touches’.

Nov 6

Student Hub Live: Planning short written answers

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00

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This Student Hub Live session looks at the stages you need to think about when planning and writing short answers.

Nov 5

Student Hub Live: Generative AI in OU learning: tool or just talk?

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00

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In this Connect Live session we will be talking to a special guest about how generative AI can have a place in OU learning.

Oct 31

Student Hub Live: Developing your essay writing (Intermediate)

Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00

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This workshop is aimed at Level 2 and 3 students who have written essays and want to improve the quality of their work.

Oct 30

Student Hub Live: Reimagining the OU: How to problem-solve in a team

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:30

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At this session we’d like to ask: if you could be in charge of the OU for a day, what changes to learning and assessment would you make? Join us to reimagine the OU and explore how the student academic experience could be improved. 

Oct 29

Student Hub Live: Stepping up to Level 3

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:30

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In this workshop our panel will give tips and advice on how to successively move from Level 2 modules to Level 3 modules.

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