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...writes about the Who Are We? project for Run Riot: Aine O'Brien unpacks the intentions of Who Are We From The Open University Research website: Interrogating identity and citizenship through art Here on OpenLearn, discover how people came together to consider how we make sense of questions of citizenship at a time when those questions are so contentious: Methods in...
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Academic Skills - Key words in essay titles
Education & Development

Academic Skills - Key words in essay titles

...writing effectively...Here’s a rundown of some common essay title keywords. @@PLUGINFILE@@/essay-keywords-eng-1447118.h5p Analyse Requires an answer that takes apart an idea, concept or statement in order to consider all the factors it consists of. Answers of this type should be very methodical and logically organised. Compare Requires an answer that sets items side by...
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Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...write their sum on the line below as shown. This process generates the next row of the triangle. [Figure 3] Figure 3 Activity 1: Pascal's triangle Using the hexagonal paper attached in PDF format below, write down the numbers in the next two rows of Pascal's triangle. Hexagon paper Can you spot any patterns in the numbers in the triangle? What do you notice about the sum...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...write up a conference paper. When we began, the focus was still on the referendum campaign. By the time it was sent out for review, however, the debate had moved on to hard v soft Brexit, or the parlous state of democratic party politics. Although we had taken temporality itself as a central theme, our approach – a form of conjunctural analysis that tried to align...
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Support for dyslexic language students through feedback
Education & Development

Support for dyslexic language students through feedback

...writing strategies are clear, tutors can point them in the right direction if necessary. Advise students with dyslexia to submit a special circumstances form with their assignments, so the Assessment Board is fully informed. Explaining the teacher’s role It is important that tutors let dyslexic students know that they can count on their support. However, it is also...
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The Life of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Life of Socrates

...writings would influence Zeno of Cithium, founder of the Stoic school) and, most famously, Plato (the main source of our information of Socrates in his Dialogues) among many others. Every major philosophical school mentioned by ancient writers following Socrates' death was founded by one of his followers. The diversity of these schools is testimony to Socrates' wide...
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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...Writing and Classical Studies today...In the eighteenth century and into the early part of the nineteenth, considerable numbers of aristocratic men (and occasionally women) travelled across Europe in pursuit of education, social advancement and entertainment, on what was known as the Grand Tour. A central objective was to gain exposure to the cultures of classical...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...writes about time, memory, and ideas about identity. It also considers why Woolf’s fiction is often considered difficult. Selected extracts from her essays on writing help to clarify some of these perceived difficulties, illuminating complex patterning and structure in this fictional account of an English village, on a day in June in 1939...This free course introduces...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs