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Irish Women’s Poetry
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry

...work of three leading poets – Eavan Boland, Sinéad Morrissey and Colette Bryce – and their impact on a new generation of women poets emerging over recent years. The changing fates of Irish women’s poetry It is remarkable to consider how far Irish women’s poetry has travelled in the past few decades. In the 1980s, there was little awareness of Irish women writers...
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Child development and learning activities
Education & Development

Child development and learning activities

Are you a parent? Do you work with young children? We've put together a variety of FREE fun tasks to share with your children to help aid them in their learning and development.
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Activity 30 mins
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...work is designed to take about three hours – but if you want to develop your skills as a writer you may well spend longer than this. Even just a short paragraph can take a while to get right – though sometimes, of course it can work more or less immediately. How long you spend on the writing exercises is up to you – but you will develop best as a writer if you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Writing across cultures
History & The Arts

Writing across cultures

Xiaolu Guo explains how she approached her novel, A Concise Chinese–English Dictionary for Lovers - making creativity work across the English and Chinese languages...[Xiaolu Guo] Transcript
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Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Kay Lynn Stevens
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Kay Lynn Stevens

Lee Curley and Kay Lynn Stevens compare how juries, trials, and jury research studies work in the UK and in the United States...Find out about The Open University's Law courses. Podcast transcript
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...social contract, consenting to be governed in return for the guaranteed protection of their rights. Which all sounds rather promising. You can hear the voice of Locke when you listen to the words of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776): ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with...
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Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...work, study and everyday life. The course has four sessions, which cover the following topics: numbers, measurement, shapes and space, and handling data. There will be plenty of examples to help you progress, together with opportunities to practise your understanding. A Welsh-language version of this course is also hosted on OpenLearn Cymru. Everyday maths 1 was written...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Rupesh Shah On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Rupesh Shah On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...working alongside Rose Armson in supporting systems thinking for People services at the OU) and then as an Associate Lecturer on an undergraduate and postgraduate modules in systems thinking. Rupesh received his BSc (Hons) from the University of Bath in Business Administration in 1997. He gained his PhD from the University of Bath in the Centre for Action Research in...
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