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Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...de-personalizing of complex issues. This results in overt generalisations, reductionism, a lack of depth, and more recently, a global populist political backlash. [The Audio Booth; Photo Credit: Lucia Scazzocchio. All rights reserved.] The Audio Booth; Photo Credit: Lucia Scazzocchio. All rights reserved. Following the European Referendum in Britain, for example, the...
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Article 15 mins
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas’ (‘each to their own’). Whilst this expression suggests that we should never quibble over colours, chromatic terms can nonetheless provide a rich source of discussion for language learners who want to extend their knowledge of idiomatic expressions in the target language. Indeed, there are many descriptions and...
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Article 5 mins
Assessment in secondary music
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary music

...concept or example of a musical genre that you might wish a class to learn about. Identify the concept, then describe how you might use formative and summative assessment in support of young people’s musical learning. Table 4 Something to explore with your class MUSICAL CONCEPT/IDEA USES OF ASSESSMENT Words: 0...Assessment in secondary music: 2 Key issue 2: What are we...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...concept closely related to speed...In this free course you will explore two aspects of strength and conditioning in sport and fitness: speed and power. Strength and conditioning is the physical preparation of athletes and in this course you will explore the physiology of speed before looking at training methods to develop speed. You will also look at power which is a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...concepts such as legal capacity and the rights and responsibilities of the individual. You will examine how laws are made, and how they affect us at different points in our lives. It is an ideal course if you are a beginner or returning to study...This free course, Starting with law, explores key legal concepts such as legal capacity and the rights and responsibilities of...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Youth's Magic Horn, 1806–8), was dedicated to Goethe, and was described by him as an essential volume for any household. Something of the impulse underlying this interest in folk-song is shown by the preface to a collection by J.G. Naumann (1784): The times in which dazzling and forced styles found approval are past. Men who had a deeper feeling...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...concept clinical trials in the field of fluorescent image-guided surgery. However, one method might be even better than 5-ALA, and it's had a lot of attention from both the scientific community and the media. It’s called tumour paint. Jim Olson remembers being ridiculed. It was 1989 and he was defending his PhD thesis, and the bank of University of Michigan professors...
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Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...concept of music accompanying image can be applied to skills of composition understand how to develop techniques of appraising and analysing film music through classroom activities...Using film music in the classroom: 1.1 Experiencing film music - People hear and experience film music differently, and it is important to respect and explore this subjectivity. No answer is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs