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Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...social learner or a volunteer student? If you were looking for content to work through, do you want structure, pace and visible goals, or freer options with no need to assess yourself and links to other people interested in the same area? Of course, these are not exclusive motivations, but they do lead in different directions. Courses that are free but based strongly on...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...work of Thomas Leland, Elizabeth Griffiths and Regina Maria Roche are often considered some of the earliest examples from this tradition A. M. Shine’s The Watchers (2022) and Jan Carson’s haunted whodunnit The Raptures (2022) are evidence that the tradition is still very much alive and well in Ireland. Many of Ireland’s most famous Gothic writers over the past 250...
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Article 45 mins
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...work through the activities you will be encouraged to record your thoughts on an idea, an issue or a reading, and how it relates to your practice. Hopefully you will have opportunities to discuss your ideas with colleagues. We therefore suggest that you use a notebook – either physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...social media icons] Y tro nesaf y byddwch yn mynd ar y cyfryngau cymdeithasol, edrychwch ar y postiadau gwahanol ar eich ffrwd a bod yn onest â'ch hun ynghylch sut maent yn gwneud i chi deimlo. Os yw lluniau, sylwadau neu negeseuon trydar rhywun yn gwneud i chi deimlo’n ddrwg, dylech ddad-ddilyn neu guddio’r person hwnnw (hyd yn oed os mai eich ffrind gorau yw’r...
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Article 10 mins
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...social relations. The way that empires were established and maintained required the exercise of different forms of power: from military conquest and violent suppression to cultural hybridity and ‘philanthropic’ investment. [Described image] Figure 1 ‘The History of Mexico: From Conquest to the Future’ by Diego Rivera, murals at Palacio Nacional, Mexico City....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...work or outside. What sources of evidence did you draw on in making that decision? Are these among the four sources of ‘best available’ evidence identified? Did you critically appraise the evidence in the way described above? If you did, how did you go about this? If not, what is your judgement now of the quality of the evidence you used? Discussion As humans we can...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...works, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and explore the evolution of British detective fiction in relation to Christie’s background, literary modernism and the development of middlebrow fiction...When we think of twentieth century literature as a popular cultural form, Agatha Christie (1890–1976), Britain’s pre-eminent crime fiction author after the First World...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Representations of hell in Christian art
History & The Arts

Representations of hell in Christian art

...social order within a community, studying these representations could reveal a wealth of information about the society that commissioned and paid for them. We are particularly interested in the choice and heftiness of punishments applicable as consequences of professional and social sins mirroring the economic basis of that society and the main targets for keeping order....
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Article 10 mins