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Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...changing your lip position.) the sound ou, as in ‘vous’, ‘tout’, ‘bonjour’, is pronounced with the same lip position, but with the middle part of your tongue raised at the back of your mouth. It’s a bit like the sound ‘oo’ as in ‘zoo’ in English. Try saying them one after the other and note the changing position of your tongue. Activity 8 Now listen...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...changed’ – to the point perhaps where a piece of work or its application is discouraged or prevented – what is the point of discussion of this type? So who gains from dialogue? Perhaps there is an underlying moral imperative for scientists to commit to the notion of dialogue. Sir Aaron Klug, President of the Royal Society, in 2000, puts forward just such a point of...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...changes that characterised that era. Profiting enormously during the first half of his life from the progress of industry and having the financial means, he later devoted himself to publicising and practising his social and economic ideas. Most of these derived from Enlightenment notions and, he thought, could eliminate poverty and crime, contributing to social and moral...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...change. Having considered the theory behind the leadership as traits perspective, you will now reflect on some of the critiques of this position. It is good to consider these criticisms as they both enable you to be a more critical thinker at work but they also set you up well to reflect on alternative approaches to leadership...Week 2: Leadership as person: traits...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...change gloves and to routinely clean and change their protective clothing. In this Open Learn course, you will learn about some of the different routes of transmission as well as some examples of the pathogens that are transmitted via these different routes. But now, let's make a start by looking at some of the categories of infectious diseases, as well as how we go about...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...change until some of the sidekick/damsel in distress female characters are elevated to heroes in their own right and writers and directors recognise that just because a character was originally depicted as a straight, white, male, doesn’t mean they have to remain that way. There are several examples of such shifts in superhero comics, although these are often received...
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Article 15 mins
The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...change, intrusion of untraditional, foreign ideas, and a sense of national decline have produced a massive backlash against ruling establishments. Sadly, the closure to the outside world they demand, if carried out, would plunge much of the world into economic depression and cause immense international conflict. We would be back in the 1930s, heading for disaster....
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Article 5 mins
An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...changes. It was not an easy task for the Chinese style of teaching to be truly accepted by British schools. When the Head teacher of Bohunt already had his preference on what makes a good lesson and who is to blame if things went wrong, we Chinese teachers had a hard battle to begin with. Discipline and teaching pedagogy: In the conversation between Mr Strowger and a...
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Article 10 mins