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Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...writing, based on subject matter and linguistic register. In the ‘Introduction’ to Windrush Songs, the poet James Berry, born in Jamaica in 1924, describes the situation facing the people of the Caribbean in the late 1940s: None of us wanted to grow up poverty stricken. We didn’t want to grow up without knowledge of the world. We certainly didn’t want to grow up...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Co-designing professional learning to address evolving challenges
Education & Development

Co-designing professional learning to address evolving challenges

...creative pedagogies enable practitioners to develop new perspectives and opportunities have an interdisciplinary outlook build on the strengths of the stakeholders involved. Learning opportunities using this approach can have a significant impact on teacher self-belief. A finding that aligns with our TELT impact study’s insight shows that confidence was the main...
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Video 5 mins
What does Moon music sound like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does Moon music sound like?

...creative process for my composition began after meeting with Dr Mahesh Anand who suggested three themes I might like to explore - the birth of the Moon, the discovery of water and the possibility of living on the Moon in the future. The melody is an emotional response which I arrived at by improvising after meditating on these ideas, particularly the loneliness one might...
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My career goal: digital
Science, Maths & Technology

My career goal: digital

...Creative suites and software In extension to computing use, an understanding of software development – no matter your area of work – will enable you to review working systems critically and effectively. The range of free courses below give you some grounding knowledge in these areas. Development and coding Computing code is the building blocks of software systems and...
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Article 20 mins
A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence
Health, Sports & Psychology

A reader's guide to The Luzhin Defence

...writing, his best known novel being the controversial Lolita (1955). From 1959 he resided in Switzerland, where he died in 1977. Nabokov was talented at chess, and this interest inspired The Defence (1930) - originally written in Russian. Its protagonist is Alexander Luzhin, a chess player who competes for the world title. He falls in love, but becomes disturbed by the...
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Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle

...write these days has that dichotomy at its heart. The show is in some sense a testimony to those countless quotidian decisions, mostly made far away from the halls of power; to take the higher path. To do the right thing. Perhaps we all wish we might have travelled farther in those decades; but the fact that we remain on the path, for all its bumps and obstacles, is an...
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Exploring the classical world
History & The Arts

Exploring the classical world

...readings from Horace's ode 3.6. Exploring Roman elegiac poetry The sounds and rhythms of Roman Elegiac poetry, with readings in Latin and translation. Satire in the city of Rome Using Roman satirical writing to discover social history. The satirical verse of Juvenal The motivations of Juvenal in his satirical works, with readings in Latin and in translation of Satire 5....
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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...Writing perhaps eight hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Greek bard Homer tells of how: Huge god Hephaestus got up from the anvil block with laboured breathing. At once he was helped along by female servants made of gold, who moved to him. They look like living servant girls, possessing minds, hearts with intelligence, vocal chords, and strength. They learned...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs