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History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...think of it? These are two major questions that cannot be answered accurately by the ‘hard’ evidence of book history. However, there are other, more personal historical records, documents which captured moments in time when men, women and children felt the need or were forced to disclose information about their reading habits. Journals, diaries, memoirs and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...think of a desert sand, composed of well-rounded, red oxide-coated, well-sorted quartz grains. Now imagine that climatic conditions change and these sand grains are swept away by flowing rivers and re-deposited elsewhere. The new sand deposit will be produced by the action of flowing water, but the sand grains may retain many of the characteristics of wind-deposition...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...think of any? Write down your thoughts and then compare with the feedback provided. Discussion First, and most obviously, people will not necessarily tell us the truth in interviews about how they feel, what they think, or what they do. Second, they may not know these things. One reason for this is that, as indicated earlier, much of our everyday behaviour is below the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Beginners' Spanish: Getting around: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe places in Spanish give and understand directions in Spanish talk about urban transport in Spanish navigate around a...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...think we’re quite flexible.’ This level of flexibility being reported here may come with experience, as these responses came from pain specialist practitioners. A pain nurse stated the following: ‘we have a plan there. But within the plan there could be plan A, B and C depending on the individual child’. Participants talked of the importance of both ‘involving...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...Think for a moment about examples of social marketing with which you are familiar. Discussion One of the most obvious examples in the UK is that of the anti-smoking campaigns. Here it is important to note Kotler and Zaltman's (1971) point that social advertising and social marketing are not the same thing. From the public's perception this is often the ‘face’ of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...thinking at all. In The Anniversary, I thus introduced De Quincey: A short spare figure, with an expression in his eye that at once indicated the strength of the man of genius and the weakness of the valetudinarian, advanced with a slow pace of diffidence towards us, and thus addressed us: "I fear, sir, that I am an intruder both upon your interesting conversation and...
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Article 10 mins
Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...think of David Bowie, picture him as incarnations of his most memorable personae: Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane or the Thin White Duke. Much of my academic work, my PhD thesis and subsequent first book focus on disguise in the theatre, particularly mendacious characters and the multiple masks and identity changes they don within the ever-so illusory world of the stage. You...
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Article 5 mins