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How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...Simple Melody to explain...[Virginia Woolf in 1902] Virginia Woolf As Virginia Woolf’s letters and diaries amply record, music was a central part of her social life as it was for many of her contemporaries and she was at her best as a humorist writing about these occasions. She records with glee the various mishaps that befall musicians and audiences – a prima donna...
Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...simple games like fruit salad, a game that mixes a circle of people by giving each person one of several fruits (pineapple, banana etc) and letting them race to swap seats when their fruit is called. The game is simple enough to change the language vocabulary to Afghan languages like Dari and Pashto, so pineapple become ananas, banana becomes kayla and so on. At the end...
Global Handwashing Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Global Handwashing Day

...simple, cost effective way to prevent many of these deaths. Find out more about disease prevention and the importance of handwashing, hygiene and sanitation in these free courses from The Open University. The theme of this year’s Global Handwashing Day is “Clean hands are within reach”. Changes in handwashing behavior are often temporary; think how often a small...
Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments

...events which you will be able to investigate with simple home experiments to understand the science behind them. We hope that you will investigate further and you can share and discuss your results with us on the OpenLearn social media channels. Just tag us or @ us in your posts on Facebook or X. Watch these instructional videos and recreate your own wild weather...
TESSA: Active Learning
Education & Development

TESSA: Active Learning

...The Maths Game Titus, the teacher, is multiplication tables. Some children are not paying attention and fail his test. Later he sees them playing a game using multiplication and asks them to teach it to the other children. TESSA - Seven Rivers in Africa Kevwe finds geography difficult but is taught a simple song to help her remember the names of seven rivers in Africa....
Rocks in the field
Science, Maths & Technology

Rocks in the field

...simple experiment explains all Metamorphism of rocks Explore the variety of rock types in this geological excursion along the Causeway Coast. The Antrim Coast There are many types of rock on the Antrim Coast. Chalk is one of the most interesting. Discover its secrets: microfossils, flints and much more. Two more igneous rocks Glynda Easterbrook of The Open University...
COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...simple statistical modelling assumptions and severe extrapolations (estimating unknown values using trends in values we know already, but going far beyond the current range of values). So where did these researchers go wrong? The core analysis of this study is based on a simple regression (a statistical technique of estimating the relationship of one variable with...
An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...Coding Week. ...Q: What is AI? A: There is no simple answer! AI is a collection of technologies and techniques that aim to reproduce the intelligence that we see in animals and people inside machines, particularly computers. Q: How does AI work? A: There’s no single way in which AI works – it’s a range of technologies. The simplest perhaps are expert systems which...