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Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...system. What is done in my country is quite different from what is expected here. I’m not clever enough to write an assignment. How do I organise essays and reports? I don’t understand the assignment title. What am I expected to do? I look at the blank page. I don’t know where to start or what to write. I can write short informal pieces but I have never written a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...System, thus setting the agenda for various surveys [Described image] Figure 7 Translation: the government funds and administers the national crime survey. British crime surveys have been carried out in 1983, 1985, 1989, 1992, 1994 and 1996, drawing on a representative sample of 10,000 people over the age of 15, drawn from the electoral register until 1988. The British...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...system of strategies and techniques. These will be supplied in part by historical example, by what writers in the past have tried to do. But techniques are also arrived at through the poet’s own exploration of these elements. Poets may choose to write in a traditional form – say a ballad or a sonnet. Alternatively they may choose to write in what is often called...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...systemic barriers which have tended to exclude them from the musical establishment gender-linked evaluation by critics not being hired as conductors tending to focus on smaller-scale forms, which were deemed as having less worth...Introducing music research: 2.2 Philosophical bias - In the first section of her article ‘Gender, professionalism and the musical canon’,...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...system for decimals, can you use your rounding skills to estimate calculations using decimals? This skill would be needed in everyday life to approximate the cost of your shopping. Example: Approximations with decimals Give approximate answers to these. Round each decimal number to the nearest whole number before you calculate. 2.7 + 9.1 9.6 cm – 2.3 cm 2.8 g × 2.6 g...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...system with wires and land and all these kind of things is still huge. RH: But if you’re going to build it on a local village basis or a regional basis or a micro-grid basis – MR: I’m sorry, the numbers just don’t support that, Roger. It really is clear. For a start … I mean I’m all for solar, I love solar, and particularly in sunny countries, fine, let’s do...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...systems of psychology. From the Oedipus complex to dream analysis and repression, Freudian concepts have had a profound impact on literature. By introducing the concept of the unconscious mind, Freud radically transformed writer’s understanding of their craft, inspiring the creation of psychologically complex and layered characters. Freud’s influence became...
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Article 45 mins
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...system since its publication. For practitioners too, Wicca had reached a stable position as it entered the twenty-first century. The broader (Neo)Pagan movement it had instigated has a strong presence in the US and Northern Europe; Wicca gained legal protection as a religion in the US in 1986, and continues to campaign for legal recognition in the UK. Estimates put the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs