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History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...business, and before they ever put pen to paper, writers are themselves, readers. Studying the recorded evidence of a famous writer’s reading can offer us wonderful insights into his or her intellectual development through time. By gathering together responses to reading, we can begin to piece together the pathways of both influence and resistance through the act of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...busy inventing new ways of doing things and we need them in on the ground floor helping to figure out how to solve this problem, not people like me, whose first world is not the digital world. I can do it, but it’s not my first world. The future of Planet Earth: Optimist or pessimist? Oh, I hate this question! Well you know the question about being optimistic...
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Video 30 mins
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...busy and juggling lots of things, while some of you might realise that you already have time available for study. Now you have mapped out your available time for study, it is worth considering how to ensure you make the most of it in order to learn as effectively as possible. One of the things that many students tell us is that they worry about being distracted in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...business of child-rearing in the hope that they will then do more later on as well. There are a whole range of ways that social policy underpins women’s citizenship and it goes back to T. H. Marshall’s notion of the Political, Civil and Social Rights and of course social policy is quintessential about the social rights, but those three sets of rights aren’t separate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...business institutions, there was much more difficulty to come by funding than it was for some of our colleagues engaged in mainstream criminology. So I think these were the two contexts which led us to the book and the article. Dr. Deborah Drake Great. In the article and the related book chapter, you cover a number of challenges associated with researching crimes of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...busy life to one which is a lot quieter. It takes time to come around to the fact that you're not well enough to work. Work was everything. It's where my friends were, that's what I did. As a teacher, you pray for the holidays to arrive. But I had all this time and didn't know what to do with it. I was very fortunate, because the hospital helped me straight away. Because...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...business and languages. Or you can build your own individual science, technology, engineering and mathematics degree with the BSc Combined STEM. Finally, the MA/MSc Open is an innovative masters degree, which means you can expand your existing discipline-related knowledge to pursue options related to your professional development. People change jobs and careers throughout...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...business, and improving information about individual workers would help remove statistical discrimination, so that firms did not need to use stereotypes based on group characteristics in deciding whom to employ. Institutional economists, on the other hand, believe that the causes of labour market disadvantage are structural, built into the institutions of the economy,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs