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Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...Introduction - The issue of ‘citizenship, work and the economy’ is often neglected in everyday discussions of citizenship. But a moment's reflection should demonstrate how important it is. The vast majority of us will spend the bulk of our adult lives working in some context or another, and our engagement with economic activity more generally is obvious (and not just...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...Introduction - In this course you will consider key developments in the English language from the end of the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. You will study how the social and political changes of this period affected the English language as well as the development of new tools and ways of thinking about language. Firstly, however, some useful ‘tools of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
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
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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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