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Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...Open University course EE818 Language, literacy and learning...Understanding language and learning: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand key issues in the relationship between language and learning understand the importance of language in learning understand the different ways in which language features in learning reflect...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...Open University programming began, with a whole new unit set up to deal with its graphic needs. It was here that experiments with character generators began. Typical graphic design during the sixties saw a move to a greater use of photography and more detailed illustration, due mainly to the fact that 625-line transmissions when they were launched in 1964, allowed greater...
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Article 15 mins
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...source of strength and power for holy and obedient Christian living, which is what he means by ‘sanctifying influence’. Here too, in emphasising the supernatural dimension of religion, Wilberforce is reflecting a wider cultural shift towards Romanticism. Page 273 Before developing the assertions of the first two paragraphs directly, Wilberforce digresses to consider...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...Open University course M813 Software development...An introduction to software development: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate the engineering nature of software development describe key activities in software development and the role of modelling explain key concepts in software development such as risk and quality explain...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...open-air museum to ancient monument, and to any of the many other places that mark aspects of the past – but together they provide the most common means that many people have of accessing ‘the past’. Battlefields are often emotionally charged spaces that tend to be grouped by scholars in their own category of heritage site, located within ‘a subset of sites of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT): Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate a familiarity with the most recent scholarship on European citizenship and in particular with the concepts of ‘acts of citizenship’ and ‘activist citizenship’ explain why European citizenship...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star
History & The Arts

Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star

...opened up with Surprise Surprise (a mawkish vehicle specialising in family reunions which Victoria Wood memorably skewered in her satirical drama Pat and Margaret) and Blind Date, the win-a-person dating gameshow which could justifiably be called the defining ITV programme of its decade. Unsurprisingly it was not short of critics. In a memorably affronted appearance on...
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Article 5 mins
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

...open window, habited as a prize-fighter when he enters the ring. "You will take cold," I exclaimed. "Where is your shirt?" "I have not a shirt —my shirts are unwashed." "But why not tell the servant to send them to the laundress?" "Ah ! how could I presume to do that in Mrs. Knight's absence?" One more illustration of the eccentricity of De Quincey. I had been to...
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Article 10 mins