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Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...world. Always reflect on the notes you have taken in your journal. Did you note things you heard – the way people speak or a squeaky or breathy voice? Did you note any smells – like a distinctive perfume, or the smell of fried fish on someone’s clothes? When reflecting on your notes, highlight any details you find especially interesting and to which you might want...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...world, I would have been crazy to have imagined as a 14-year-old that that would ever be possible. And, you know, when I kind of look back at cooking jam in the kitchen when I was that age, you know, it’s, it has been an amazing journey and it’s come a very long way from, from that time. Music – Boogie Woogie Party, dur: 00:31 Fraser Doherty: It all started about...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...world on how open or closed you should be. In this free course, Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?, we start a debate to support the decision-making process around openness and the different preferences we each have. Networked practice online is often connected to decisions about open practice. To network with others requires some exchange of information. To...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...world. While Irish literature is often associated with the Nobel Prize-winning poetry of Seamus Heaney or the famously difficult modernist prose of James Joyce, the Gothic tradition gives us a whole new lens through which to read the legacy of literature in Ireland. The Irish Gothic tradition is diverse, spanning time, space and literary genre. From around 1760 there is...
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Article 45 mins
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...world, and she got them to say what they thought. And some of them didn't like the Chinese. Some didn't like the Russians. Some didn't like the Germans. Some didn't like the Japanese. But it was quite varied. And she said that was an experiment in prejudices. And that word, prejudice, obviously comes from prejudging. And so for lawyers, it's a good way of remembering...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...World War period. A succession of factors have come into play – uneven economic development, threats to regional cultures and languages, the decentralisation of some states, and more recently the impact of globalisation and European integration. The effects have been cumulative, with old factors continuing to operate while new ones were added, including, as we shall see...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...World Wide Web. The PC reached a 50 per cent household penetration rate in the USA only in 1999, while before 1990 the internet was used mainly by the US Defense Department, not for commercial purposes. However, as the two introductory quotations indicate, proclamations that we have entered a ‘new’ era are not new. In fact, the advent of electricity, the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...world, it is also inevitable that personal information is stored in large-scale government and commercial databases. Unfortunately, breaches of these large-scale databases happen fairly frequently and, when they do, personal information can be leaked which will make you, and millions of others affected, vulnerable to scams and other identity crimes. This course analyses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs