OpenLearn Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland Hub
Free learning content from The Open University for all who are interested in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Miscellaneous
Interactive Learning Hub
Grow your knowledge and have fun with this free collection of games, quizzes and other interactive activities.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
A brief history of sex education
...courses and qualifications. There is still a great deal we don’t know about the history of sex education. The research that has been done is largely about school sex education during the 20th century. School sex education is important, yet most of us learn little of what we know about sex from our schooling. We learn it from friends, from family and, increasingly, from...
Education & Development
LGBTQ+ Hub
Collection of free resources exploring sexuality and LGBTQ+ history across the core faculty areas within The Open University.
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History & The Arts
Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
...language and culture, represents the pinnacle of achievement. The chair is awarded to the winning entrant in the competition for the awdl – poetry written in strict-metre cynghanedd . A crown is awarded separately to those writing in free verse. [Hedd Wyn's headstone at Artillery Wood. ]After a petition was submitted to the Imperial War Graves Commission following the...
History & The Arts
Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
...language’. The insurrection caused damage to property valued at a million and a half dollars, and the plot concerned the whole island. A letter from Arthur Brown, slave-owner, to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, a leading abolitionist in the House of Commons, suggests that of the twenty-five slaves he owned, only five were ‘useful’ and he would happily emancipate them as...
History & The Arts
Happy Saint Patrick's Day
...free learning resources on Ireland. @@PLUGINFILE@@/Saint%20Patrick%20Interactive%20timeline.h5p?time=1773065925782 Discover more with OpenLearn Ireland OpenLearn Ireland is a section of the OpenLearn website that offers free learning content from The Open University for all who are interested in Northern Ireland, The Republic of Ireland and the culture, developments and...
Society, Politics & Law
Policing practice and leadership
Grow your knowledge and understanding of policing with this collection of free learning resources, bought to you by the Department for Policing at The Open University.