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Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...open to challenge, uncertainty and discomfort. Similarly, the framework for ‘equity-centred transformative research’ outlined by Venkateswaran et al. (2023) compels researchers to develop a critical consciousness, to understand how their own position sits within dominant frameworks of understanding and values, including in relation to research practice. Secondly, by...
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Article 25 mins
Sut daeth jazz i Gymru
History & The Arts

Sut daeth jazz i Gymru

...opened in profusion, offering ‘jazz’ and ‘blues’ tuition, plus lessons in the Charleston, Turkey Trot, Chicago Maze and Swansea’s Marina Saunter with women’s bands supplying the new music. While Wales danced towards the Second World War, large dance orchestras evolved from the combos, propelling a new generation of young women leading the bands into the swing...
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Article 5 mins
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...opened, and a figure glided in. The portmanteau dropped from my arms, and my heart's blood was chilled. If an apparition of the dead were possible, (and that possibility I could not deny,) this was such an apparition. A hue, yellowish and livid; bones, uncovered with flesh; eyes, ghastly, hollow, woe-begone, and fixed in an agony of wonder upon me; and locks, matted and...
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Article 5 mins
Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside
Society, Politics & Law

Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside

...sources which put Red Clydeside in context, at local, national and international level. The third section (c. Overviews of Red Clydeside) focuses on three resources, one short online item and two books, all of which present accessible accounts of events. These events, however, have been the subject of prolonged and heated debate among historians and political partisans...
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Article 30 mins
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...Open University language course that concentrates on Spanish as a tool for communication, but also provides some insights into Hispanic societies and cultures through authentic printed and audio materials. It will be of interest to all those who want to improve their language skills in order to communicate more easily and effectively in Spanish. This OpenLearn course is...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...Open University and TrainingZone, launched just recently. And we're looking at the role of L&D in enabling social mobility. So the white paper is very practical. We do a deep dive into different socially diverse talent pools, the specific barriers that they face, and how we can help those individuals and those groups to contribute and add value to the organisation, whilst...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...open a newsagents. What are the different things you would need to do in order to set up in business and trade? Think of as many ways as you can in which the law would have an impact on your planned activity. [Figure 1] Discussion Here are some of the things you might have thought about: You would need premises. If you bought the premises outright, you would own them (you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America

...Open University course L226 Spanish Studies 2: language and culture of the Spanish-speaking world...Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the language of rights and obligations express opinions and concerns distinguish between some of the uses of the indicative and subjunctive...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs