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Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...writing skills for work, study and everyday life...Would you like to improve your current English skills or perhaps remember areas you may have forgotten? This free course serves as good preparation for studying the formal English Essential Skills Level 1, which is available in Wales. Whilst the course does not cover all aspects of the current English Functional Skills...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...writing of the region he grew up in, the South-West of England. You will then read one short chapter from Far From the Madding Crowd and find out about how Hardy uses narration, style and dialogue to create characters and a fictional world that readers can believe in. You will also find out about the important place of religion in Hardy’s work. This OpenLearn course is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
About the Design Hub
Science, Maths & Technology

About the Design Hub

...creative and critical responses to these challenges using design thinking, practices, and processes. The design hub provides an overview of the wide-ranging themes and issues that design connects to, which will help you if you are considering studying design at the Open University. You will also find information about studying at a distance and hear about student study...
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Article 5 mins
Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...writes as if she were ‘at one remove’ from the mainstream. You might say this stems from her emigrant perspective, from being called a ‘British’ poet in some places yet ‘Irish’ in others, and from being gay in a predominantly heterosexual culture. Bryce says this is ‘an interesting (no)place to write from’. (quoted in Wyeth, 2020) Bryce’s poems often...
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Article 5 mins
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...writing TMAs, revising for exams, or for making links with later parts of the course. As students you will be using a variety of course materials and you will make notes in a variety of ways probably. You will be using course books, which you may be reading, or listening to on tape, course cassettes like this one you will be listening to, watching TV programmes and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills
Education & Development

Working as a researcher | Developing research and study skills

...writing What others said: One of the things about [having been] a journalist is that you have just got to write. … I just get started and [know] it will be fine, it will take shape. [EdD graduate] Structuring [my writing was a problem] – sometimes things make sense to me but they don’t make sense to other people … I don’t know why I struggled with it but putting...
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Article 2 mins
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...writes about time, memory, and ideas about identity. It also considers why Woolf’s fiction is often considered difficult. Selected extracts from her essays on writing help to clarify some of these perceived difficulties, illuminating complex patterning and structure in this fictional account of an English village, on a day in June in 1939...This free course introduces...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...writing, and second, between the life of the artist and his or her ‘work’. This free course, Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael, examines both problems, as well as related questions of authorship as a form of explanation in art history, taking Raphael as a case study. The goal will be to initiate debates and discuss issues with regard to approaches that might...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs