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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...research, raising the questions of alternatives. It was very early on in the process, I think it’s come a long way since then, but I had a significant amount of feedback from the medical community about that show, so I think it did open a dialogue and that programme was certainly used a lot in schools and universities, as do most of our shows. And in the wildlife area I...
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Video 30 mins
Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...research and my teaching, in community activism, community politics, and these murals are a wonderful window into communities, what communities think, what communities fear, what the odds are for communities to find a new vision to replace an old vision, and so that they are wonderful tool for that. Audio [Protestant Prince William of Orange – King Billy – crossing...
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Article 5 mins
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...researched the role of social workers working with children. I spoke to social workers to find out how abused children behaved and what signs to look out for. I found it so interesting. The job itself sounded better than writing about it. I hadn't realized that it was in my background. My dad was disabled, and my brother suffered from Down's Syndrome. I was familiar with...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...researched exhaustively, and entered into UK RED. If that is the case, we would like to hear from you. You can find information on contributing to the project, and our simple online contribution form, here...History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee: Further reading - Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...research. And these are all great reasons to make toolkits, but it’s not really the reason that I got involved in this project. And, in fact, I didn’t really ever mean to do this. I guess at some point I did maybe. But anyway. So what happened was, I was a couple of years out of grad school and I was working at Tulsa Limited, as Irene mentioned. And I was making some...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...researchers observed striking patterns in the properties of newly discovered particles, which pointed to the presence of an underlying pattern. By assuming that these patterns would continue into unexplored areas, they predicted the existence of particles with certain properties. Their predictions turned out to be correct! The pattern suggested that hadrons – meaning...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...research. You need to find out about the life stories of Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, and see whether they lived hypocritically, or whether, on the contrary, they sincerely tried to practise in private what they preached in public. The same is true of the more general, but still not philosophical, question (F), ‘Are all religious people hypocrites?’....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...researcher in the field of SFL. He is widely known and recognised for his work on functional grammar, and is author of the book Introducing Functional Grammar (Thompson, 2014). Figure 5 Geoff Thompson As you listen, consider the associated questions. 1. What is formal grammar? What is functional grammar? How do they differ? GEOFF THOMPSON I’m Geoff Thompson. I was a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs