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What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...public library advocates, for instance—claiming that ‘good’ literature was necessarily beneficial and encouraging the growth and spread of the ‘reading habit’ across all social classes. Female commentators also pushed back against hostile representations of their reading lives, claiming that fiction provided women with a temporary mental escape route from...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...public were the machines apparently capable of playing board games, usually chess, against human opponents. The most famous of these, The Chess Automaton, better known as The Turk (Figure 3), was built by Baron Wolfgang Von Kempelen and toured Europe in the 1770s. The Turk was a wheeled wooden cabinet, with a chessboard and a life-sized wooden figure dressed in Turkish...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...health and put together all the sequences that make the rover measure and image the targets that we scientists pick out as interesting and of scientific importance. I am a mineralogist by training, and thus I am part of the science team, more specifically, the science team that looks at the geology and mineralogy investigations that the rover carries out. Our science team...
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Article 15 mins
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...public eye. But basically, I mean it’s a very good idea. It was about what public reaction would be to such a heinous crime. And it was, it was a play about social media really. And we to-and-fro’d a lot, not about the writing of it, but actually what it was going to be about. I mean the most terrible thing happened. Jo Cox, I mean we’d already commissioned it by...
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Audio 45 mins
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...health, social care, youth services and so forth. This is set against widespread evidence of deeply entrenched professional boundaries and the need to manage different professional languages across communities (Rix et al, 2013). Activity 3: Is it just us? Timing: 20 minutes Consider how people understand the process of working together. Watch this video that presents a...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...public swimming pool and chaos ensues” and “a dishevelled father loses his two sons in an adventure park”. (Carson) Her writing draws on what it means to be Irish in the modern age, whilst living alongside the ghosts of the past. [Photograph of Jan Carson. Source: Author's collection, used with kind permission]Photograph of Jan Carson - Wikimedia Commons Here is a...
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Article 45 mins
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...health and safety, and fire safety. You would need to choose a name for your business, which may become a trademark; potentially a valuable one, in which case you might later register it. You may advertise your business. You would probably need employees to help you in the business. They would have contracts of employment. On top of your obligations set out in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...health and safety in an environment in which they may be working. They may also be required to demonstrate key skills such as their ability to interpret numerical information or use technology to access information sources. In order to understand how your idea for assessment can be integrated into the curriculum you must consider the learning outcomes that you’re trying...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs