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Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...social groups were included. But a special place in the pantheon of racial enemies was held by the Jews – Hitler’s own perceived arch-enemies. The murder of the Jews, we can now see clearly, was intrinsic to Hitler’s utopian vision. It is the prime example of something never previously encountered in history: the meticulously planned, state-directed, attempt to wipe...
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Audio 45 mins
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

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

...social and historical factors that influenced the development of gothic and ghost-story writing over the course of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. An extract from Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872) will give you a chance to see features of the Gothic at work within a literary example from the period. You can then try out some of these devices for yourself...
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Article 45 mins
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...social view. It's a shared, relational, and inclusive approach and gives team members more input and involvement. This can be a slow and time-consuming process. But, done right, it provides leaders with alternative perspectives and helps them make better informed decisions. [MUSIC PLAYING] Over the past decade it has been recognised in leadership literature that...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...social media sites. Activity 1 (exploratory) Growth in use of technologies Can you think of another technology that has made the transition from novel to commonplace, like telephones and computers? Discussion There are many possible answers to this question. We thought of washing machines, which have advanced from hand-driven drums to the automatic machines of today. Box...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...social welfare benefits and clearing 450,000 hectares of the invasive plants. The diagramming techniques develop skills in understanding complex situations of intervention and revealing significant challenges as well as opportunities of development intervention. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 3 study in Computing and IT courses...Diagramming for...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...social relationships and all the many other factors and trends that shape the world in which we find ourselves in today. Each context is different, and each context is endlessly changing. Development actors sometimes find it hard to know what to do about this. They tend to be working under considerable time pressure and may be expected to bring about extraordinary levels...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...social occasion and may generate intercultural encounters. The text you are about to read is a personal account of such an encounter. You will probably notice that the author uses two types of argument in his discussion of the experience. The first is argument by analogy, which involves comparing two things in order to highlight a perceived similarity. By its nature, an...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...social groups may respond to environmental change and uncertainty appreciate how analytical concepts can be useful in making sense of the complexity of environmental issues; in this case the issues of right to land and food prices. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DST206 Environment: sharing a dynamic planet...‘Land grab’: an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs