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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...writing and the publication of her verses led to appointments as magazine editor which brought some measure of financial independence. Caroline left her abusive husband in 1836, leading her husband to sue her friend Lord Melbourne, the then Whig Prime Minister. While the jury disregarded the claim, Caroline was unable to divorce her husband and banned form seeing her...
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Article 15 mins
The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...writings, his Confession, and his Letter to Corotic, which that judicious critic doubts not to be genuine. The style in both is the same; he is expressed in them to be the author; the Confession is quoted by all the authors of his life, and the Letter was written before the conversion of the Franks under King Clovis, in 496. " Where was Saint Patrick born? On his birth...
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Article 10 mins
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...write about infrequently because they are considered ‘ultra vires’, out of scope for being intimate, private or domestic. No imagination but the nation: Whiteness Phenotypical Whiteness and structural Whiteness are often conflated and regularly confused. What I see in the mirror is not causing divisions and hierarchies in one of the most iconic states of Black Africa,...
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Video 30 mins
Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...writing, licensed in any way to provide regulated legal services (and will not be covered by professional negligence insurance in the same way as regulated lawyers). It is therefore likely that a user will have more limited remedies and avenues for compensation in the event that they rely upon the outputs of an LLM and that output was deemed to be negligent or inaccurate....
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Article 20 mins
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...write a learning course and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different purposes of self-instruction and receive advice about the techniques and strategies to help the learner...Are you interested in creating your own open educational resources? This free course, Creating open educational resources, will help...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...writings, George Buchanan, a Renaissance scholar and tutor to James VI introduced the idea that the ancient Kings of Scotland had been elected and not divinely appointed. Monarchs were therefore subject to the law of Scotland. If a monarch broke their contract with the people, then in law, the people were entitled to depose that monarch. Whilst this idea emerged at a time...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...writing ‘look again at doing an assessment’, write something like ‘practise using the assessment documents.’ Note down whether you think this is something you could do now or would be best done in the future, and whether you would like to do it through more learning. Table 2 has been partially filled to show the kind of information you need to capture. Table 2...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...Write down your personal objectives for studying this course. (You can modify this as you progress.) What do you enjoy about living in a rural location? What do you not enjoy? Write down what ‘rurality’ means to you i.e., what are its characteristics (this might help you think about what it is it that being rural brings to your business). Share your thoughts with...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs