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Quiz: Which Brontë sister wrote it?
History & The Arts

Quiz: Which Brontë sister wrote it?

...works they were able to publish after much difficulty, some of which are among the best-known novels in English Literature. But can you tell which sister wrote which line or phrase? Take the quiz and find out. @@PLUGINFILE@@/QuizWhichBront%C3%ABsisterwroteit.h5p?embed=1 Find out more Written in blood: Family, sex and violence in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre Prof. Sara...
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Activity 10 mins
Duchess of Malfi: Deconstructing the play
History & The Arts

Duchess of Malfi: Deconstructing the play

...work. In 2010 the Greenwich Theatre performed The Duchess of Malfi and in this collection we follow the cast and crew as they analyse the language used by John Webster, as well as exploring different ways of understanding the text and converting his words into a performance. This material forms part of The Open University course A230 Reading and studying literature... The...
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Facilitating creative thinking
Money & Business

Facilitating creative thinking

...work, using different processes and techniques. This material forms part of The Open University course B822, Creativity, innovation and change... Facilitating creative thinking An introduction to this album Warming up The facilitators focus on preparing the group for the creative problem-solving session. Exploring the problem What’s really behind the problem, and how...
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Interdisciplinary Learning – getting the most out of multi-subject degrees
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary Learning – getting the most out of multi-subject degrees

...working in a particular field and that they offer a particular focus of knowledge. When we consider interdisciplinary learning (and teaching), we are working across boundaries of knowledge and creating new knowledge from various sources. However, many of our traditional modern academic disciplines are newly created themselves. For example, when I started working, I was...
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From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...work, which draws in the viewer and opens up a very different way of relating to the subject. Oftentimes in media representations we see refugees during their journeys in an extremely vulnerable situation, we see their suffering and they are often fixed to a subject position as ‘victim’. This evokes a one-way gaze from ‘us’ (who are not – at this moment –...
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Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...works in social settings, how monologues operate. Reading specific sections in isolation reminds you that a script has to have a structural coherence even in its smallest units...Creative writing and critical reading: 4 Writers on reading - In the next activity, you will listen to members of the Creative Writing course team at The Open University talking about their...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
What is technology?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is technology?

...working lives is ever growing. Understanding how people shape technology and how technology shapes people's interactions with each other and the natural world is important - not only for those who research, develop and implement new technologies, but also for all those people and organisations that have to use those technologies in their working and personal lives....
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Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?
Nature & Environment

Milton Keynes: energy capital of the UK?

...work which led to the energy rating of all buildings. Watch a film which explores what happened when Jake of The Open University and an architect of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation recognised the dangers of increased energy on the climate. Their energy efficiency measures are now part of everyday life and better known as the Energy Performance Certificate...
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