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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student

...thinking of changing jobs, moving sectors, starting a new career, or want to develop in your existing role, OpenLearn can help with that too. Our skills for work content is there to support your development, and because it's created by The Open University (sometimes in partnership with other employers), you can include it on your CV with confidence. OpenLearn digital...
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How do historians know about the past?
History & The Arts

How do historians know about the past?

...Thinking of taking it further? If you want to study history at university level, the free course 'Taking your first steps in Higher Education' or the introductory module 'Arts and languages access module' can help you to decide which path to take and prepare you for study. You can study history at The Open University through BAs in History, Humanities, or the Open BA, all...
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A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...think about Hillary Clinton The Chinese might be warming to the idea of a President Clinton, but not everyone in what should be her strongest States at home are convinced. The bruising battle with Bernie Sanders - and the revelation of Democratic Party attempts to frustrate Sanders - has taken a toll. Middlebury College's Matthew Dickinson found Clinton might have trouble...
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The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...think of a smaller population, mostly living and working in rural communities, in harmony with the seasons. Move forward to 2000, and the image changes profoundly. You might picture towns and cities full of people, with a myriad of new technologies coming before your eyes. How this transformation happened is one of the great questions of historical study, and not just for...
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Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...think it was important to juxtapose the journey of someone who acquires citizenship by investment with those of a skilled worker and a refugee? NV: We wanted to situate all of this in the context of broader debates about migration and asylum, particularly given the current ‘refugee crisis’. We wanted to make sure that the person playing the game could see the...
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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...thinking about the Irish border since my early teens. Born in Dublin to Irish parents, my family moved to England for my Dad’s job in the early 1970s. Born in Ireland, raised in England, I have now lived in Belfast for 25 years, so issues of national identity, where you belong, and where people think you belong, were impressed upon me from quite an early age. The Irish...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...think about the reasons for this. In dialogue with the poet Below we've included an interview with Nuala Ní Dhomnhaill and Angus Calder. The conversation covers a wide range of topics concerning language, translation, gender and identity in Ní Dhomhnaill’s poetry which you might find interesting to link back to the discussions of Irish women’s poetry featured in our...
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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...thinking approach, accounting for work-from-home (WFH) remote energy consumption alongside associated reductions in office energy requirements. The rapidly growing B-Corp certification is stricter in this respect, requiring companies to declare their remote worker energy consumption. This can be rather complicated from both technical and moral perspectives. In a video...
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