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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...concept of race was a marker of human difference based on perceptions, belief and actions driven by imperial power. Equiano’s autobiography was and remains powerful because it describes the experience of slavery and gives vivid images of the middle passage from the perspective of the victims who are labelled as slaves. His autobiography was a significant contributor to...
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Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO
Education & Development

Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO

...Concepts and Elements of a Work Programme, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Available at: https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/itetebmisc5_en.pdf UNESCO (2025a) Global Ministerial Dialogue on Science Diplomacy: Co-Chairs’ Statement. Available at:
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Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...concepts and theories relating to adult learning has occurred at different levels, ie, personal, professional and philosophical. For example, when I recall my decision to ‘return to learn’, I am now aware of how personal and circumstantial factors at the time affected my access to learning opportunities. As I have already highlighted, I had taken advantage of...
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Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...concept appropriate to a diplomatic gift given as Britain and Japan attempted to find common ground in their approach to China in the 1920s. It was certainly chosen to be studied in this OpenLearn course because it symbolises different ways of looking at the same problem...Looking at, describing and identifying objects: Conclusion - The case study on the netsuke allowed...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...concepts of electrical voltage and resistance, and the parameters used to specify batteries demonstrate an overview of the historical development of IT in video recording, newsgathering and new dissemination compare the merits of different media as sources of news discuss issues of trust and authenticity in information sources...IT: Information: 1 Bringing the news on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...concept and the rotunda is a Roman concept, therefore they’re difficult to combine and this is the result we get. There are various explanations like that. Eleanor Betts So what’s your own view? Mark Wilson Jones Well I came to this just as a young architect with a curious mind looking at the building, and I thought it looked really kind of odd without knowing all...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...concept of identity. To what extent can the photographs supply us with information about the dimensions of identity (whether of gender, class, nationality, or ethnicity) in the 1890s and the 1990s? Try to look at both photographs in two ways, first, in terms of the information they provide about the people and events being depicted, and second, in terms of any evidence...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...concept of literatures...Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners: Background - In June 1948 the SS Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in England at the end of a journey from Jamaica that brought around 500 West Indians to Britain. The British Nationality Act earlier that year had granted free entry to Britain for all Commonwealth citizens, as the government tried to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs