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OpenLearn's response to the pandemic
Education & Development

OpenLearn's response to the pandemic

...course at this present moment. The free course has helped me improve my knowledge, it has enhanced my employability skills and given me greater insight. I have talked about the course in an interview. UK learner, upskilling for career development, unwaged and seeking employment Developed in partnership with the UK Department for Work and Pensions, the Open Door to Success...
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Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...free of that is actually to deliberately play around with the rhythms of the characters. Think of some people having a slow, quite mellow way of expressing themselves, and other people being quite spiky and quite sharp. Even listen to different types of music for each character. So say this character reminds me of this piece of classical music, and this character reminds...
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The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...languages, beliefs, and practices into something associated with the ‘devil’. An example of this Western tendency is that of Reverend Robert Moffatt, an English missionary who went to Batswana in order to convert locals to Christianity. When Moffatt arrived among the Ewe (one of Batswana local tribes) to start his work of conversion, he started to study the local...
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Design and Creativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Creativity

...course T211 Design and designing... Design and Creativity A short introduction to this album. New Designs: Charger Harnessing the power of technology: a designer talks about developing and testing a new charger that turns kinetic energy into electricity. New Designs: Postmobile Design for a specific market: a new designer explains how he secured sponsorship from the Royal...
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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...free learning. Try one of our free open courses: Political Ordering Nationalism, self-determination and secession Rights and justice in international relations The USA, power and international order: Foreign policy under Obama Politics, media and war: 9/11 and its aftermaths Welfare reconstruction 2 days: Step back in time and see BBC 1979 election coverage: See Part Two...
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Joe Smith - Overview of Projects
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Overview of Projects

...course I am keeping going some of my work with media and environment, helping broadcasters and others to think about how they might cope with global environmental change issues, particularly climate change. I don’t think that work will ever end, but I have to say just in the last six months I’ve seen some of the best media projects I’ve seen in a very long time,...
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Britain's Fat Fight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Britain's Fat Fight

...killing us, as well as crippling the NHS. After smoking, obesity is the next biggest cause of premature death in the UK. The series has been produced in partnership with The Open University and here on OpenLearn we have got lots of articles and free courses so you can learn more about obesity, diet and exercise and how you can improve your health and that of your family:...
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Appreciative Inquiry
Education & Development

Appreciative Inquiry

...course, An Appreciative Approach to Inquiry. In the session, we explored what we mean by Appreciative Inquiry, focusing particularly on the generative possibilities of starting from a positive core instead of problem-focused inquiries. We explored how a different language of inquiry, involving immersing, imagining, innovating and re-immersing, changes how we feel and...
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