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A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...writing, and the key role it plays in human communication. It tracks this history from the invention of writing around 5500 years ago to the mass popularity of emojis today...This free course, A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis, is an introduction to the history of writing, and the key role it plays in human communication. It tracks this history...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling
History & The Arts

The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling

...writing 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' in a room at the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh. What drives literary tourists to visit the room where she penned the final chapter?...In 2007 a travel journalist, Laura Knight, reviewed the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh for The Times: The windows of room 652 give me a whiff of Hogwarts school for wizards. Two tiny apertures high up...
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Article 10 mins
Simple Coding - Summary
Digital & Computing

Simple Coding - Summary

...writing flat instead of float or forgetting punctuation like commas and colons, or using the wrong data type, leads to an error. You have also seen that programming involves writing clear and understandable code (e.g. by using comments and plain English names for variables and functions) to make it easier to change later, and testing it thoroughly. Learning to program...
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Activity 5 mins
Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...writing. Everybody can remember incidents from their own learning of mathematics. Some incidents may be positive and others negative. What influence might such memories have on the teaching and learning of mathematics? Activity 1 Starting your mathematical autobiography Think back over your own experiences of learning mathematics, both as a child and as an adult. What...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...writing letters or emails. Enrolling on this course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. The badge is a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject. What you learn by completing the course will really help if you wish to enrol on a formal qualification. Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from your...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

...writing essays? An obvious way of finding out the answer to this question is by searching through successful essays. We could do this by simply reading example essays one by one and looking for the pronouns 'we' and 'I', counting the number of each pronoun and seeing which occurred most often. Another, easier and more accurate, way is to use a computer to search through a...
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Article 10 mins
Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland

...writing about being a mother, daughter, or wife’. She disliked male-dominated poetry which made women ‘ornamental’ symbols of the nation. Eavan Boland challenged these images of women and therefore some of the assumptions made by nationalism. We might describe Boland’s mission as heroic: to write an honest account of female experience; to gain a place in her own...
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Article 5 mins
Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'
Education & Development

Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'

...writings by Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Paulo Freire, Sojourner Truth, Malala Yousafzai and Barak Obama, and encourage them to tell their own stories. It is one of the first credited university courses provided to students in the camp. Teaching in the Jungle requires a flexible approach and warm clothes, as few equipped classrooms are available....
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Article 5 mins