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Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland
History & The Arts

Opening up history: political culture in eighteenth-century Ireland

...system functioned. Rather than work around those gaps, I decided to address some of them directly. 6. What is the project’s argument? [Book cover of Print and Party Politics in Ireland, 1689-1714, by Suzanne Forbes.]Although individual petitions or reports have been cited, material in the Journals of the Irish House of Commons relating to controverted elections has not...
Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...think of something, get it down. It doesn’t have to be a traditional paper notebook (though these are wonderful things). You can use your phone if you would rather. But Get It Down – forgetting that great idea for chapter three that you had in the supermarket queue is so frustrating. And often those ideas have gone for good. Pretend to be Jack Kerouac. Possibly the...
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...system. So in fact, every principle of-- I think there are 360 schools in Singapore. So there are 360 principals, which is another big difference with the UK-- the comparison of size, of course. Every principal in Singapore is a government officer. So they have a very clear duty to fall in line with government policy on education. They're provided with a very big, thick...
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...systems pervade everything we do; review some basic ideas of signal processing, control and communications; and allow you to use a digital filter to remove Gaussian noise from a signal...Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Take for example this free course, Electronic applications. An interactive website with videos and interactive software will show how electronic...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...think critically about the strengths and limitations of criminology as a subject area...This free course, Questioning crime: social harms and global issues, introduces the concept of social harm as an alternative to the more familiar concept of 'crime' as a basis for studying aspects of the social world which are damaging or harmful. In doing so, it will encourage you to...
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...think we should make a completely general global hypertext system, the very proper answer at CERN was, well, that's fine, but it's not what we're here for. So in fact, it was only because my boss, Mike Sandel, who had a sort of twinkle in his eye, and thought, hm, I don't know what exactly this is about, but I have a feeling that it sounds kind of exciting. And he said,...
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...think about and draw from extensive research to highlight the skills that are involved. The course is relevant for social workers who are already qualified and those who are students. Ideas from the course may also be helpful to other health and social care practitioners who want to learn about writing in their practice. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from...
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...think. I'm afraid that even then when I was some sort of, well at least a weekend hippie I found this Edenic injunction to get back to the garden rather at odds with the prosaic suburban reality of gardening in the UK. Interested in the Social Sciences? Find out about Open University courses But that's very much the sort of sniffy attitude which is strenuously attacked in...