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Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...work demonstrate sufficient skills to ‘read’ and ‘draw’ a wide range of diagrams, following given conventions, that help improve an understanding of a situation select diagrams suited to the needs of the situation being investigated and the purposes/preferences as the diagrammer...Systems diagramming: 1 How to use this course - This course is a learning resource....
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...social revolutions of the 1960s, impacted upon American rock musician Janis Joplin (1943-1970). You will investigate the extent to which the contemporary sexual revolution brought about greater gender equality for female popular musicians such as Janis Joplin, and consider whether it might be more accurate to view this as a superficial revolution which masked the reality...
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...working hours, for example, might require a child to move into different childcare settings. Listening to children and their carers can highlight the impact of such changes. The macrosystem refers to the wider cultural values, laws and customs that filter through the other layers to impact on the child. Children who move between different countries, for example refugee...
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...social, economic issues and everything else. So it’s really kind of creating the ground work maybe for policy still because there are ideas that still need to get out there and float around. So there’s less of a direct applied element. Whereas other researches I’ve mentioned maybe has that more clearly. Discussion David Block was trying to understand how...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Diversifying classical music programming: performing more women composers
History & The Arts

Diversifying classical music programming: performing more women composers

...works by women composers...In this series of videos, Laura Hamer from The Open University discusses classical music programming and how it can be diversified by performing more music by women composers with Gabriella Di Laccio (Donne Women in Music), Róisín Maher (Finding A Voice Music Festival), Tim Parker-Langston (Hensel Songs Online), Stephan Meier (BCMG), Angela...
Disraeli on Munich
History & The Arts

Disraeli on Munich

...social life has diverted the minds of men from other pursuits, the Fine Arts have decayed and vanished. I wish to call the attention of my countrymen to another great movement in the creative mind of Europe; one yet young and little recognised, but not inferior, in my opinion, either to that of Athens or of Florence. It was on a cloudless day of the autumn of last year,...
What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...work? How can you take control of it? This article explores...Are you feeling out of control? How much control do you think you have? Locus of control is a term coined by Julian Rotter in the 1960s as part of his social learning theory. It refers to the belief in how much control people think they have over our own lives. You can complete a test here to see if you have an...
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...works and what it contains - This unit has been designed to help anyone with an interest in the history of Wales to find key information and to begin understanding the way that historians of Wales do their work. It is aimed both at those who are generally interested in the subject and may have a good knowledge of Welsh history already, and at those who are relatively new...
Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs