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Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...writing challenges, but also gives rise to strengths like creativity and problem-solving. Each individual experiences dyslexia differently. Despite its prevalence, it remains under-recognised globally. With proper understanding and support, people with dyslexia can thrive in education and work, contributing their valuable perspectives. This potential is showcased by many...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...writing). In this free course you’ll examine one of Christie’s most significant works, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and explore the evolution of British detective fiction in relation to Christie’s background, literary modernism and the development of middlebrow fiction. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A893 MA...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Skills for study
Education & Development

Skills for study

...Writing and essays If you're already an OU student, the Study Support resources on StudentHome contains pointers to lots of helpful information about referencing, assignments and exams. Maths and data Digital and online skills If you're already an OU student, the Open University Library hosts Being Digital - a resource with activities to develop your skills for online...
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Article 5 mins
Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale
History & The Arts

Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale

...Obi-Wan Kenobi, who answers him, is my favourite character: a fairy godfather if ever I saw one. ‘These are not the droids you’re looking for’, he says, altering reality in a later scene. The experience of redemptive love, to which his counsel eventually leads Luke, is a yet more impressive aspect of his gift. Try your hand at writing with these free courses...
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Article 10 mins
Reading Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Mill
History & The Arts

Reading Political Philosophy: From Machiavelli to Mill

...writings, and the way in which they highlight aspects of fundamental historical materialism, formal equality and the relationship between the state and the individual. Derek Matravers and Gerry Cohen on The German Ideology The German Ideology, Marx and Engels’ 1845 book, is dissected and discussed. The discussion highlights the importance of the book in terms of Marx...
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Audio 5 hrs 18 mins
Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk
History & The Arts

Shall I Compare Thee? Poetry, Education, Seduction - An OpenMinds talk

...writing for Manchester University Press, The Art of The Faerie Queene, and which builds on book, co-authored with J. B. Lethbridge, 2013's A Concordance to the Rhymes of The Faerie Queene. Professor Danson Brown said: “I will look at the self-conscious manipulation of devices like simile in Elizabethan poetry in terms of the demands they make on us as readers. I will...
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Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...writing set in an urban environment full of corruption and deceit. Hardboiled fiction was typically narrated by an imperfect hero – often an emotionally resilient, hard-drinking private detective – who lived by his wits rather than seeking rational solutions. Standing in direct contrast to traditional detectives like Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot, hardboiled...
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Article 5 mins
Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...write down a lot of, kind of, how I need to be prepared, what we’ve been working on, what are the strengths, what are the weaknesses, what are our threats, you know, from the opposition, from how we could go wrong and then have a very clear plan of, you know, what we’re going to achieve when we get to the race or when we get to the Olympics. And I think writing it...
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Video 10 mins