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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...social phenomenon. People started creating literature around it, adding humour and sarcasm. And because not everyone is good at crying, the whole thing would be rehearsed beforehand, and women like my grandma played a great role as master trainers. I had a great time recording these unique songs and stories of my community. I uploaded them and made them available publicly...
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Video 5 mins
Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...social, political and cultural frameworks influence how people engage with the past in which identities are created and sustained. Historical knowledge has the power to influence how people value past eras and construct their lived experiences through their own interpretations. It also impacts on how they understand themselves and is significant because of its role in the...
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Video 25 mins
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...work is valued because of the wider social contribution that it makes. This, according to Will Marre, is an increasingly important explanation for engagement...Employee engagement: 2 Finding meaning and engagement in work - You will no doubt have found from the previous section that most people who have worked in different jobs in different sectors will have different...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health Research at The Open University
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health Research at The Open University

...social, and political dimensions of reproduction, sexuality, and sexual health...The Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health research group at The Open University leads interdisciplinary research in reproductive choices, HIV/AIDS, sexuality & disability, the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender (LGBT+) people and pregnancy & childbirth. This page brings...
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Article 10 mins
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...work harder to do the social interaction. It’s also wrapped up in a whole load of past instances in that person’s life, where they’ve misread the situation. They thought they were doing the right thing, and it’s really backfired in their face. And they don’t know what’s going on. And they’ve had to really deal with the social consequences of that. And that...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...social media to portray a particular image to others, you are engaging in a form of marketing communications, with you as the brand. This course uses theories and models to explain marketing communications and provides examples of how to effectively manage the marketing communications process. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin
History & The Arts

Creating a different world: Celebrating Ursula K LeGuin

...work of the sci-fi author Ursula K LeGuin, who died earlier this week...[Ursula K Le Guin] Hermaphrodite beings, dragon women, ambivalent utopias and sympathetic magic. Just a tiny taste of the fantasy and science fiction worlds created by Ursula K Le Guin, who has died at the ripe age of 88. Le Guin challenged everything that came before and opened up new ways of doing...
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Article 5 mins
The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...work...[Jane Austen 10 pound note] 'Austenmania’ has been a prominent feature of British culture for the last decade and more, and never more so than in the year which marks the bicentenary of her death. The extent of 21st century national and international popular investment in Jane Austen and her novels, expressed in part by the decision to put her image on the new...
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