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Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...world and solving problems in narratives. Social pleasure: e.g., belonging to a community of readers and connecting to others through reading as well as identifying as a reader. The pleasure of functional work: e.g., using reading to learn, think, and act in different ways, and using reading to shape one’s writing. The pleasure of inner work: e.g., using reading to...
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Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...world of quite strong needs. A camera can discover somebody and they can mumble something, and a little mic that's stuck behind their ear can kind of pick it up, so there isn't quite that same kind of compulsion behind characters' need to speak in film and screenwriting, but stuff has got to really send somebody out into the stage and send them and send something right up...
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Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...World War, art history tended to involve a mix of antiquarianism, connoisseurship and liberal humanist values that incorporated some of the idealist notion that art is a reflection of enduring, trans-historical values. At the same time, its commitment to the idea of the individual artist of genius aligned it with the requirements of the art market. The central assumption...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...world. Research based on this theory is revealing the significance of the early years of life in the formation of attachments that go on to be central throughout life. This free course gives an introduction to this exciting area of contemporary study. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E219 Psychology of childhood and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...world realised they ‘needed’ such a device? As technological change accelerates, marketers must make increasingly risky bets on the future in order to have a chance of success. Such marketers must understand customers better than customers understand themselves. Satisfying – means providing products and services that meet needs effectively. Marketing has been...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...world three-dimensional social spaces, and while being passionate about social justice is highly desirable and indeed is a professional requirement, it may, as Wilson (2017, p. 1310) suggests, be ‘impossible to act in the world without ever causing harm’. Therefore, perhaps social work is always work-in-progress, in which social workers are participants and active...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...World) agreed to feature the idea. Two entrepreneurs who happened to be watching contacted Baylis immediately, going on to form a company with the intention of putting the clockwork radio into production. 'Freeplay', as they were called, raised a government grant for initial development costs and then found investors, to date selling over three million units. The company...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...world are somehow stored in the rats' brains. In one of his experiments, Tolman used the maze shown in Figure 5. Three paths (A, B and C) lead from the start to the goal box (which contains food). When given a free choice of paths, rats preferred to take path A, this being the shortest and most direct route. After a preference had emerged for path A, a block was placed at...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs