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Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...Open University course E304 Exploring English Grammar. Brief definitions of words in bold can be found in the Glossary at the end of this course...Grammar matters: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand that grammar can be seen as a flexible and useful tool for meaning making understand how grammar and vocabulary choices together...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...source of conflict for many years. The Second Republic of 1931 to 39, blown to pieces by the Civil War which started with the military coup in 36, was partly torn apart by the opposing stances on religion in society and even more specifically in the public education system. Although the church going population has dropped since then to near zero proportions, with fewer...
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What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is perhaps not surprising that religion figured prominently, with many accounts of what would one day be called Buddhism. Well into the nineteenth century, Europeans divided the population of the world...
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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...sources of local financial backing and a significant volunteer workforce that keep clubs going. Without this type of historical support, the women’s game is often starved of both finance and voluntary labour to sustain female participation. This is exacerbated by the local County support for clubs mostly funded directly by the ECB, as one local ECB employee stated: …...
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Article 10 mins
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs

...10.1037/1528-3542.5.4.476. Olson, M. A. and Fazio, R. H. (2002) ‘Implicit acquisition and manifestation of classically conditioned attitudes’, Social Cognition, 20, pp. 89–104, doi: 10.1521/soco.20.2.89.20992. Rudman, L. A. (2004) ‘Sources of implicit attitudes’, Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, pp. 79–82, doi: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00279.x....
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Article 10 mins
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...Open University, and I’m ending my little series of films about the seasons in art by considering spring. And the only possible place to start is with Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera, painted in Florence around 1480, surely the most famous picture of spring in western art. Although there’s been a huge amount of debate about exactly what exactly it depicts, It clearly...
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Video 15 mins
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...Open University course T319 Environmental management 2...Organisations, environmental management and innovation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the connections between innovation and environmental management orientated organisations explain ideas about innovation and how it shapes organisational approaches to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...Open University course A224 Inside music. It covers ground similar to that found in the syllabus of the Associated Board Theory Grades 1–3 (ABRSM, 2018). Sound files have been provided for all the music notation examples as it is important for you to be able to listen to the sounds represented by the notation. There is an audio bar below each notated example; click on...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs