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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

...human stories that are palpable and symbolic in their portrayal of history in its truest form. The power of historical storytelling is its capacity to allow individuals to create tangible and believable ties with the past.History is a medium that influences how people relate to the past, how they create their sense of self and experience social relationships, landscapes...
What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?

...humanity and believed that disciples of the other were only able to engage with ideas from their own field of expertise. It is, perhaps, in this debate that we can see how distinctions between ‘disciplines’ emerge – disciples or followers fight for their belief in the ‘truths’ associated with their way of seeing and experiencing the world. The term discipline...
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...human beings, both family, friends, acquaintances, people you might bump into in the street or in the shop. It's just about having that human contact and building up those relationships with people and really making sure that what we do is in line with what the person receiving care wants and vice versa. So it's working together, rather than having this hierarchy of...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...resource in enabling Scarlett to begin ordering and categorising the world around her. Scarlett is also learning how to interact with other human beings in order to exchange information and get things done. That is, she both listens and speaks to her family in an interactive process of ‘turn-taking’. Although she asks very few questions she finds out many new things...
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...resource. Like all resources, there are different ways to use it depending upon what you are trying to achieve. Whatever you are trying to achieve it is important that you not only read the text thoroughly but also undertake the Activities (there are no ‘set’ answers to these Activities as they are personal to you but I have provided my own, or other people's,...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...resources. The two most fundamental resources of humankind and ecosystems are water and land. Both are challenged by climate change. Both are threatened by climate change. Water through the changes in the hydrological cycle where we have an indication that on very large scales the hydrological cycle becomes more intensive which means those areas that are dry today already...
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...resource, and explores the connections between the evidence of a writers reading and their literary output. The previous tutorials focus on methods of uncovering evidence of reading, and the use of evidence to understand the reception of a literary text. UK RED is a resource built and maintained at The Open University...Have you ever wondered about the reading tastes and...
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...resources being delivered over the web; they had all been involved in the design and functionality of the website and were pushing the boundaries by delivering online content using new technologies. Yet the colleagues who together helped to envision and create such an environment did not see themselves as especially creative. Have a look now at Activity 2 to explore these...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs