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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...write this down on your blackbooks and journals.Hip hop culture is eternal. Run and tell all your friends. An ancient civilisation has been born again. It’s a fact.’ Whereas the most widely circulating ‘definitions’ of hip hop derive from those organic intellectuals who were produced by US-American hip hop culture (like KRS-One), global hip hop practitioners, such...
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Article 5 mins
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...writing by looking at three short sections from the play (including the famous ‘All the world’s a stage’ speech) and a full-length scene. You will find explanations of terms in bold in the Glossary at the end of this course. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A334 English literature from Shakespeare to Austen...Reading...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...writing pitch using staff notation, and learn to perform short musical extracts from notation...In this free course, you will explore the concept of musical pitch by working with examples of folk, popular, and classical music from several world traditions. You will learn how pitch is represented using staff notation and other forms of illustration. You will also practise...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...write notes on the ‘voluntary’ aspects of the organisation using the NCVO’s definition: Does your chosen organisation have a board of unpaid trustees? What do the trustees do? Where does the organisation’s funding come from? For example, is it funded by donations from the public, membership fees or grants from government? Does the organisation involve volunteers...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...write in a direct, relevant and well-reasoned way that enabled her to argue for working women’s rights and better working conditions. She also took advantage of changes that permitted women to become members of the boards of Poor Law guardians. Nield Chew wrote pieces for the Crewe Chronicle in which she was concerned to direct attention to examples of the inadequate...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...creatively and in new ways about possible solutions, especially around difficult and contested issues. In planning an intervention diagramming also serves three more specific operational tasks: brainstorming, in which all ideas, concepts, issues, stakes, stakeholders, etc. relevant to an intervention are noted; analysis, where the relationships and links between the items...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...creative personal texts, composed of reflections on events or encounters that have captured the attention of the diarist. Both, however, are written near the time of the event they record. Conversely, autobiographies and memoirs are often written many years later and therefore bring the benefit (or not) of hindsight to the events recollected. Memoirs are a ‘subclass’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...creative solutions from people who can adapt. With the Open qualifications the sky is the limit. What will your Open qualification look like? Video 1: The Open qualifications Discussion This type of study enables students to draw on the skills, knowledge and expertise of different subjects and is said to be the future of learning. Being able to understand and analyse a...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs