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Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...study how things are, but we need to pay closer attention to the ways that things come into being, for example, new identities, new groupings, new activisms, new ideological and cultural formations. Our final seminar on 14 June will discuss the challenges and prospects for psychology and the social sciences in the era of Brexit. This article was originally published on...
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The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...Studies courses and qualifications [Thomas Coryat] In Renaissance Europe, Jews were seen as a threat to Christianity. Jews had been evicted from England in the 1290s, and were forced out of many other European states in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In those few places where they were tolerated, such as Venice, it was under sufferance, and only because they were...
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Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...Studies using brain scanning have shown that this part of the brain is especially active during such tests. Being reasonably fluent with words is important for communication. However, being able to produce lots of words very quickly is not a measure of intelligence! Here are some tests to measure your verbal fluency. You will need: a stopwatch, or a watch or clock with a...
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Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...study or knowledge. ‘Statistics’ is also a singular word denoting a field of knowledge. The statistician Stephen Senn has defined it as ‘the science of quantitative reasoning’ — of ways of thinking about and working with numerical facts and ideas. But ‘statistics’ has a plural meaning as well. A ‘statistic’ is a numerical fact, or a piece of numerical...
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The power of learning analytics to give students (and teachers) what they want!
Miscellaneous

The power of learning analytics to give students (and teachers) what they want!

...book here Can't join in person? Watch the event live online. If you are viewing the event by livestream, please do take the opportunity to have your questions answered by our speakers LIVE during the event by posting in the OpenLearn comments box below this article. Study with the OU: MA in Online and Distance Education Find out more about Professor Rienties' research...
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Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University
History & The Arts

Graham Harvey on Davi Kopenawa at Oxford University

...exciting new perspectives on shamanism and forest ecologies. It seems remarkable that this was the first time Davi Kopenawa had been invited to speak and engage with academics in Europe. I am honoured to have been part of that gathering. This article was originally published on The Open University's Religious Studies blog, 'Contemporary Religion in Historic Perspective'....
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Open Talks - Wales: Music Nation
History & The Arts

Open Talks - Wales: Music Nation

...an overarching study of Welsh music history and detailed consideration of the ideas, beliefs, practices and institutions that shaped it. Learn more with OpenLearn [Open Talks from The Open University in Wales] Open Talks is a video series where Open University academics share their expertise and passion on a subject or issue of their choice. Watch more from Open Talks...
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The legacy of Empire: The Bengal Famine
History & The Arts

The legacy of Empire: The Bengal Famine

...study history?" There are a lot of answers to this, but one important reason is that people are already talking about history, and sometimes, they have got it seriously wrong. One example of this is the widespread ignorance of the Bengal famine. For me, the 'killer facts' about the Bengal famine are straightforward. In 1941, when the Battle of the Atlantic was at its...
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