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Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...concepts such as agency, power and authority and context. You will consider some differences between concepts, models and theories and be introduced to some questions that will help you evaluate different educational leadership theories and models...This free course, Exploring educational leadership, provides an overview of the field of educational leadership and...
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...prompts to introduce yourself. A green button at the bottom reads “Edit my profile and display settings.”] Instead of the biography, it will be easier to access other parts of your profile such as your courses in progress, saved items and achievements. [Screenshot of the new OpenLearn profile page. The page shows the user’s profile header labelled “Forename...
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Getting started with a Password Manager
Digital & Computing

Getting started with a Password Manager

...prompt you to install the LastPass browser plugin. Click the big Quick Install button near the middle of the page. [Screengrab as described in the text] At this point your browser may request your permission to add the LastPass browser extension. Agree to add the extension by clicking the relevant on-screen button (the wording is slightly different between browsers so...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...concept to the fore in police reform efforts across England and Wales. The use of the terms ‘institutional racism’, ‘systemic racism’, and ‘structural racism’ are often used together and sometimes interchangeably to define ‘a system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing...
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La historia del español en unos seis minutos
Languages

La historia del español en unos seis minutos

...De dónde vienen palabras como siesta, cerveza o paella? ¿Qué lenguas han influido en el español? ...Descubre, a través de estos vídeos animados, la fascinante historia del español y sus hablantes y cómo ha evolucionado desde sus orígenes hasta convertirse en una lengua global hablada. También podrás escuchar el español tal y como se hablaba a lo largo de su...
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A brief introduction to co-design
Science, Maths & Technology

A brief introduction to co-design

...concept of co-design: what it is, why it is needed and what role professional designers can play in making it happen. Transcript If you are interested to learn more about some of the methods and approaches used to enable co-design, see the article co-design approaches. Acknowledgements: This OpenLearn page was produced through collaboration between The Open University and...
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
History & The Arts

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

...De Quincey’s notorious nineteenth century book, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, is also considered the first autobiographical account of drug addiction. It influenced not just generations of narcoticized writers but even medical opinion on the effects of opium for decades after its publication. In the Georgian era of 1821, opium – in the form of laudanum - was...
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How Spanish sounded across its history
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How Spanish sounded across its history

...de la Historia] Glosa emilianense, Codice 60, folio 72r, manuscript kept at the Real Academia de la Historia. Transcript Libro de buen amor Listen to a passage from El libro de buen amor (The Book of Good Love), written in 1330 by Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita (c. 1283–c. 1350), considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish poetry. It is a pseudo-autobiographical...
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