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What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...change the application of these elements with each new horizon. Good writers constantly renew language and conventions by renegotiating the relationship between the form and content of every new poem. In trying to define poetry, we often end up thinking archaically. We think of the work of writers such as Keats or Shakespeare, for instance, as in some way defining what...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...change and fashion. The concerns, methods and culture of music scholarship have undergone an important expansion and transformation since the nineteenth century, and debates have taken place about the nature, methods and scope of musicology. Some of these changes have been influenced by shifts in other areas of scholarship; from the mid-twentieth century, for example, the...
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...changing in recent decades? What roles are regions playing and likely to play in the emerging governance structures of the European Union (EU)? These structures, still in the process of formation, raise strongly contested normative as well as empirical questions, and regions occupy a central position in debates about past trends and possible futures. Three main political...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...change from one observation to another. Figure 19 shows two images of a galaxy taken 41 days apart. Can you spot the difference? It shouldn’t be difficult to spot the presence of a very bright ‘star’ in the second image, which has been further highlighted by a position indicator (a vertical and a horizontal bar). This is a supernova: the light comes from the...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...changes in people’s lives, and that with that power comes great responsibility. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K271 Social work law...An introduction to social work law: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise what social work is and what a social worker does in their role reflect...
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...changes to retailing. Before we move on to explore the role of marketing it's time for a trip to the shops. You should already be starting to think about retailers from a different viewpoint than that of a shopper...Retail marketing: 1.3 Visit a retail store - How much time you allocate to Activity 3 is largely dependent on when and where you choose to visit a store....
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...changing her nappy. I was amazed how much of the world she was aware of. She really listens when Daisy is singing – she keeps really still and turns her head to the music. She seems to respond even when Ryan plays his fiddle! It would be lovely if all three of them turn out to be musical. Rosalind: Mia is a very alert baby. She seemed to like the print on my dress and...
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...changes might depend on the kind of mathematics being worked on or on how well things were going. So, for one teacher learning mathematics was like ‘climbing a wall: sometimes easy, sometimes very hard’. Personal images are also invoked when teachers try to say what they like or dislike about learning mathematics. Here are some examples. I enjoy learning mathematics...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs