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Getting started with French 2
Languages

Getting started with French 2

...out facts about France and French habits. This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXF002 Beginners French 2: bien sûr! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!...This two-week course offers you the opportunity to discuss food, your...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...out of your research. It acts as an important record of your work and progress. Traditionally, research diaries have been paper-based and chronological or alphabetical in nature. The advent of electronic records offers new ways of keeping a research diary with some useful features, such as the search function. You may choose to keep your diary online, on paper or...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...out of water before they reached their pretended destination, proposed that they should steer a course towards Barbados. In pursuit of which the Captain, having brought them all together with their Journals [log books] they were found to be at odds with the calculations of the Captain, one by 80 leagues, the other by 100 and the third by 120. For the Captain calculated...
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Article 10 mins
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...out her own understanding and making it relevant to her own professional knowledge. Kris also found that her sense of self changed as she progressed towards her doctorate. When she started her professional doctorate journey, she was secure in the sense of herself as a teacher education. A professional. This identity dominated her sense of who she was. But, after years of...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...out the context of the 2012 Paris Declaration on OER. Search on ‘Creative Commons’ if you’re not familiar with the concept, and read/skim some of your hits. Read one of Martin Weller’s blog entries from early in 2013 – Openness has won – now what? – where he argues that: ‘it’s hard not to conclude that openness has prevailed… Whether it’s open access...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...Out of the 24 teams in AFCON 23, nine of the coaches were White, the final would have been contested by two White coaches if Ivory Coast hadn’t sacked their White coach (Jean-Louis Gasset) in the group stages and replaced him with the homegrown Ivorian Emerse Fae after a 4-0 defeat in the group stage. I often watch African and Caribbean teams play and subconsciously...
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Article 10 mins
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...burn incense and light candles in front of them, carry them in processions and have them in their homes hanging on walls – not as decorative items, but as protectors and ‘watchful eyes’. Icons in their broadest sense form the core of Byzantine artistic production; icons in their narrowest sense are its most dominant item. The establishment of icons within the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...out, is that the terms ‘personal’ and ‘polis’ religion are modern ways of looking at the ancient Greek religious system (Kindt, 2015, p. 37). This means that the ancient Greeks did not consciously distinguish between these two terms as we do today in their everyday religious activity. As such, we can usefully look for elements of both ‘polis’ and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs