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Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...Introduction - This OpenLearn free course encourages you to reflect upon and critically assess the factors that shape what we know about antiquity, as well as offering some insight into how different approaches to antiquity – whether through texts, material culture, or modern receptions – can work together. It is important to be aware of how studying the ancient world...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...Introduction - This course features a discussion that shows how languages develop – a spoken language is constantly undergoing change while written language is more conservative. In its second part it also looks at the evolution of Latin into the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and others. The discussions throughout this course are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban
Society, Politics & Law

The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban

...project. I asked a sample of around 200 people what they consider racist or not. MTurk has a strong skew toward white liberals, but this shouldn’t affect comparisons between groups. The first point is that whites and minorities largely agree on what is, and is not, racist. Look at the results by race in Figure 2. Notice how small the differences are between the white...
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Article 5 mins
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...project he and his friend Freddie Andrade were building called Wikitongues. They were collaborating with volunteers around the world to record videos of people narrating a story or incident in their native languages. I loved the idea. Videos on Wikitongues helped me learn about many beautiful stories from all over the world that would have been totally hidden otherwise....
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Video 5 mins
The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...projects and distributions to favour their select constituencies. The upshot was that the local political dynasty flourished. Sardar Yusuf had become the indirectly elected district nazim for Mansehra, the administrative district to which Balakot belongs, days before the earthquake. This left him in charge of local government in the main area benefiting from relief...
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Article 5 mins
How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...projects in higher education, experimenting with the technology and badges' potential in instructional design. What's needed next, is connecting these now numerous endeavours by educational institutions, to discuss how we might develop frameworks for those core skills for which many of us are rewarding digital badges. So what next? In support of our overall endeavour to...
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Article 5 mins
Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...Project AF: My name’s Alastair Fothergill, I am a director at Silverback Films, which makes wildlife TV and movies for Disneynature at the moment. How I got hooked… As a little boy I was one of those chaps who always had a snake under my bed, I always had tadpoles, much to my mother’s frustration, and I grew up for a lot of my youth on the North Norfolk coast, which...
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Video 15 mins
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...Introduction - The optimistic approach to a problem is to view it as a challenge and an opportunity – a chance to make progress. In this course, the nature of problems is explored by looking at the way they are used as a stimulus for finding solutions. It is presumed from the start that you want to be involved in the process of finding solutions and that you are not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs