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The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...education, and markers of station, but did so on limited incomes, which depended precariously on the life, health, diligence, and probity of the male breadwinner. As the critic Edward Copeland remarks: ‘As a consequence, money, especially money as spendable income, is the love-tipped arrow aimed at the hearts of Jane Austen’s heroines and her readers…’ Thus the...
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Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...Open University course A342 Central questions in the study of music...Music and its media: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge of the main ways in which music is transmitted understand how the means of communicating a particular piece can change over time examine examples of musical media from different historical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Professor Lord Nicholas Stern interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin interviewer NS: = Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Economist, and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE, participant RH: Nick Stern, Lord Stern, thank you very much for agreeing to be interviewed for the OU...
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Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University postgraduate computing course, M814 Software Engineering...Software and the law: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the differences between various types of intellectual property and the legal frameworks that apply to each type understand the issues that arise when...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Jim Skea's interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer JS: = Jim Skea, Research Councils UK Energy Strategy Fellow RH: Jim Skea thanks for agreeing to be interviewed by us. Can I start by asking you when, was it that you first got interested in energy? JS: I first got interested in energy way back, it was actually...
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Does Brexit mean another Scottish Independence vote?
Society, Politics & Law

Does Brexit mean another Scottish Independence vote?

...opened up the possibility of more devolution, which had previously been more or less closed off. A feasible alternative to independence is to push for more autonomy in the areas that are devolved and currently “Europeanised” – including agriculture, fishing and environmental policies. The UK could grant that and perhaps convincingly argue that the Scots were...
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Do as Dumbledore does: the benefits of private speech
Languages

Do as Dumbledore does: the benefits of private speech

...Open University’s EdD programme, following a spark of curiosity that woke me up from my language teaching routine. One of my students in the language laboratory, as she engaged with an online task, started talking aloud to herself, even gesturing to the computer screen. I was fascinated. And I wanted to find out more about it. I wanted to know why people talk aloud to...
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Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists

...open door policy has rendered it almost unrecognisable from the one that Bernd Lucke and his fellow euroscpetics founded in April 2013. Fishing on the right For one thing, a number of AfD politicians use firebrand rhetoric the type of which modern Germany has not heard before. Frauke Petry, arguably the party’s most well-known figure, claimed in January 2016 that there...
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