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Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...de Siècle Magazines.” Science and Literature: The Great Divide?, special issue of MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, vol. 7, 2013, pp. 33–40. Tippett, Benjamin K., and David Tsang. “Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains In Spacetime.” arXiv preprint, 4 Nov. 2013, arxiv.org/abs/1310.7985. Willis, Martin. Literature and Science: Readers’ Guides to Essential...
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Article 10 mins
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...De Castella and McGarty, 2011; Every and Augoustinos, 2007; Kurz, Augoustinos, and Crabb, 2010; Tileagă, 2009), and also how these issues are understood by ‘lay’ people in everyday life (e.g. Figgou and Condor, 2007; Gibson and Hamilton, 2011; Andreouli, Greenland and Howarth, 2016). These approaches invite you to think critically about the political: to examine and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen began to lay the framework for the recognition of rights such as the freedom of speech and assembly. In these documents the development of modern human international law can be seen. Whilst such documents differed in their detailed content, certain general principles underpinned them: Every human being has certain rights, which they...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
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Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Get started with Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This course content was originally written by Arosha K. Bandara and Maria Townsend. It was adapted...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...class. You also can’t reproduce more than 10% of items in an anthology or large vocal score. Having a knowledge of different legislation and policies, especially when they have a direct impact on your library or your role, and demonstrating an awareness of these in your library development plan will enhance the potential of your library provision and shape your role in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...de Zeeuw [A face comprising a merger of a photo of a woman and a cartoon of a man] The interview Pirate practices often involve theft and property violations without clearcut ideological motives, as is the case with most torrent trackers. For this reason they are often dubbed apolitical, in a pejorative, delegitimizing sense, namely as ‘merely’ criminal, directed...
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Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...de Responsabilidad Limitada (SL or SRL) JAPAN Kabushiki Kaisha (KK) Godo Kaisha (GK) Private limited companies cannot list their shares on a stock exchange because their shares are not allowed to be traded by the investing public. Shareholders of private limited companies usually must ask permission from the other shareholders in the company to sell their shares to a new...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images). The part of reality for which one creates a model or representation doesn’t need to be a static object such as a pipe or dictionary. It can also be a process or system which changes over time. In that case, the model will not only have to capture any enduring properties of interest, but also any changes in time that are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs