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English: skills for learning

...learn through a range of engaging activities aimed at extending your existing language skills. Transcript English: skills for learning is a free course which lasts about 8 weeks, with approximately 3 hours' study time each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to complete another...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Living with a learning disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with a learning disability

...learning disabilities have more independence now institutions are closed and if it has led to a greater inclusion within local communities...How would you feel if you couldn't choose what clothes you wanted to wear or buy? Find out for yourself, as this is just one of the scenarios covered in our interactive. Select here to begin the interactive. [Supporting belonging...
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The Wheel Learning Hub
OpenLearn Ireland

The Wheel Learning Hub

A collection of free courses and resources to support the development of leadership skills within the charity and community sectors in Ireland. [The Wheel logo]
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Interactive Learning Hub
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Interactive Learning Hub

Grow your knowledge and have fun with this free collection of games, quizzes and other interactive activities.
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Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?
History & The Arts

Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?

...fictional trans characters in shows like “Transparent” and “Orange Is the New Black” and news coverage of controversial policy issues, such as discrimination lawsuits about school bathrooms. In April 2015, nearly 17 million people watched Caitlyn Jenner come out as transgender on “20/20.” It was in this context that the USA Network drama “Royal Pains”...
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Article 5 mins
Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?
Science, Maths & Technology

Blade Runner: What's the balance between science and fiction?

...fictions? And how best to dispel the myths and misconceptions perpetuated by blockbuster films while also enlightening audiences on the real marvels of biotechnology? For The Australian Society for Medical Research one solution has been to hold an annual Science in the Cinema event as part of National Science Week. Each event comprises a film screening and a Q&A session,...
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Video 10 mins
The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
History & The Arts

The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

...fiction produced in ex-combatant countries and elsewhere too. [Ford Madox Ford] Ford Madox Ford Using one of its most well-known novelistic representations, A Man Could Stand Up-, volume 3 of Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford, I’m going to explore three characteristics of the armistice: celebration, silence and ambiguity. What follows briefly sets Ford’s novel in its...
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Article 15 mins
Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction
History & The Arts

Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction

...the surprise discovery of a manuscript that she thought had been lost, the mystery surrounding the condition of the author… all this is the stuff of fiction. A belief of Emily Dickinson comes particularly to mind: Publication – is the Auction Of the Mind of Man [The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Article 5 mins