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10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...place in Rome, Florence or another Italian city? Learn the lingo first with our free course _Beginners' Italian: Food and Drink._ 2: Instagram [Instagram icon] Where would we be without Instagram's 'Valencia' filter to capture the perfect #ShamelessSelfie? The online photo/video-sharing and social networking service was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 as a free mobile app. In 2012,......
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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...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 here 4 days: 1979 NOP poll published in...
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The future of emojis
Languages

The future of emojis

...course, they’ve mostly been tied to the keyboard, but some dictation software already includes them, and this may well expand. KB: It would be remiss of me not to cite different means of digital text creation as potentially having an impact on emoji use. For example, the growth of voice notes as a means of communication may also negatively impact the popularity of emoji...
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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...course materials which illustrate how uniqueness is constantly made and remade as different layers interact. This uniqueness is recognised by the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (CEDRA) report, which suggests that past policies tended to neglect it: Neither rural areas nor the communities that live within particular types of rural area are...
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Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...course we're really talking about girls and mothers here, since the debate is highly gendered).Want to know more about childhood? There's an OU course on that... Campaigners and even some researchers go on to blame these goods for a mind-boggling range of social ills, from lack of self-esteem to bodily dissatisfaction to low academic attainment, and (in what seems a...
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Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?

...Course, where people come together to think about their own lives and death and learn how to support others. Evaluation of these courses has shown that they reduce fears around death and dying, help people to consider and plan for their own death, and increase their confidence to engage with friends, family and community members who are experiencing death, dying and loss....
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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...course far more to be said about both Peter and John. We have focused on their careers supporting learners and colleagues. Peter Smith, who has died aged 77, was the son of a head teacher. He studied at Manchester University and went on to teach day-release classes to Yorkshire and Derbyshire coal miners, steelworkers, railway workers, engineers and local authority manual...
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Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...course is part of a UK-wide initiative to tackle racial harassment in Higher Education. In this lecture Lurraine Jones, Deputy Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, shares insights and reflections on the importance of the Union Black, Britain’s Black Cultures and Steps to Anti-racism short course. Lurraine is Lead Academic on this course, which is a...
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