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Happy birthday Shakespeare!
History & The Arts

Happy birthday Shakespeare!

...skills. Clip 2 If you learn foreign languages, the world's your oyster. Queen Elizabeth I Mr Shakespeare, I am pleased. Your actors will perform this play for me. Will To perform, or not to perform: I'll just do what she tells me. The Tragedies [tragedy genre image] Murder, war, adultery, revenge, suicide, revolution, ghosts and witches: this is the dizzying fabric of...
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...study. He was a well-travelled emperor, who spent much of his reign away from Rome, surveying the empire. This might suggest that, to Hadrian, Rome was not of central importance. However, he was a prolific builder and funded extensive building schemes in Rome. He grasped the symbolic importance of the city as the hub of the empire, a place where the emperor needed to make...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...Studies at Johns Hopkins University: North Korea has pursued "sports diplomacy" as a matter of national policy since the 1980s. It is one - distinctly non-politicised - way for the politically isolated North to interact with the outside world and benefit from intercultural contact and exchanges. Some cynical and sanctimonious observers label this "propaganda," when in...
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...studies, videos, activities and group discussions. Supporting this learning, students are encouraged to become critical thinkers about both how they undertake their own decisions, as well as how marketing influences our society...This free course, Marketing in the 21st century, offers a managerial perspective on how to deliver more effective marketing in an organisation,...
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...studies you’ll analyse various types of attack, look at what lessons can be learnt from major incidents and consider what security measures you should apply to protect yourself. To help you to follow the case studies, the same framework has been adopted to analyse and explain each attack. Each case study will answer the questions: What was the attack? How did it work?...
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...studies of major accidents to illustrate some important aspects of risk and how we perceive it. Section 3 introduces probability as a method for evaluating risk, and finishes by considering risk management. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T193 Engineering: frameworks, analysis, production...Assessing risk in engineering, work...
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...study in Mathematics...Rounding and estimation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: round a given whole number to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and so on round a decimal number to a given number of decimal places or significant figures use rounded numbers to find rough estimates for calculations use a calculator for decimal calculations...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...study in Arts and Humanities...Robert Owen and New Lanark: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the Enlightenment ideas that underpinned Robert Owen's social reform agenda understand how Owen's background and experience at New Lanark fed through into his thinking in the essays in A New View of Society understand the main...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs