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European Day of Languages
Languages

European Day of Languages

...learning. So, what are you waiting for? Test your language skills How to learn a language Exploring English Language for work and travel What can learning languages do for you? Let more real Open University Language students tell you Why study language? Discover 9 reasons to learn a foreign language Try our language courses for free! Study with The Open University...
Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...student Karen Horsley describes her research on the stories and experiences of young children whose families have migrated to the UK made visible through documentary photography...[Photos from Karen Horsley] Although there is often a surprise at the idea of young children using cameras intentionally to communicate and tell visual stories, my study, and others before,...
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...OU, and this amazing summer we’re having has made me think about how artists have depicted summer over the centuries. Before the modern era, people’s sense of the different times of year was really shaped by the cycle of nature, so for them summer meant the fruits and flowers that the earth produces at this season, as you can see from this bizarre figure personifying...
What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...becomes more prevalent. As far as I know, Michelle Thorn, Mozilla’s Director of the Webmaker Program, was the first to define openwashing in 2009: “Openwashing: to spin a product or company as open, although it is not. Derived from “greenwashing," which should not be confused with "The Open Source Washing Machine." Also in 2009, Phil Marsosudiro, coined a similar...
Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...become acutely contentious is housing. Transformed over recent decades through the construction of new luxury apartments and speculative redevelopment, there are growing concerns over the cost and stability of housing arrangements within cities and regions across Britain and beyond. An important part of this story relates to the transformation of homes into assets as new...
Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...becomes a possibility and then a reality. As I write, the World headlines are the stories of the Hell of Gaza, and the constant references to war involving Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Iran and the bombs of the US; stories also of ceasefires and broken ceasefires, of power and ego masquerading as leadership. Within these pages, you will read the words of a Palestinian...
Robert Burns: a man of his times for today
History & The Arts

Robert Burns: a man of his times for today

...become an informal race between Scotland’s urban elites to have one. Overseas, particularly in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Scottish settlers and their descendants followed suit. Burnomania The explanation for what one of Burns’ disapproving critics – and there were several, mainly representatives of the Kirk – termed Burnomania, is far...
A reader's guide to Midnight's Children
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Midnight's Children

...becomes inextricably linked to the course of India’s development. His hope is that ‘midnight’s children’ will contribute to the nation’s future; however he then has to contend with Shiva, his alter ego... Rushdie’s novel caused controversy because it was regarded as portraying Indira and Sanjay Gandhi unfavourably. It won the Booker Prize in 1981 and went on...