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A World Cup legacy for generations to come
Health, Sports & Psychology

A World Cup legacy for generations to come

...work towards. These include creating opportunities for talented female footballers to remain playing in New Zealand, developing more female coaches, coach educators and leaders, creating a more effective talent pathway and building a stronger relationship with the Māori Football Aotearoa. This video, produced by New Zealand Football, provides an overview of the Legacy...
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Article 10 mins
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week, there’s nothing to stop you pushing on and completing another week’s study. This course has a specific focus on the creative arts, looking at how you can develop your ideas in the cultural industries and the particular issues related to creative freelance careers. The course is pitched at...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...succeeded his father as Viscount Wentworth, and was the last of the family who bore the title. He represented this county in parliament in the year 1774. He died without issue. His sister Judith was married to Mr Ralph Milbanke, of Yorkshire, afterwards Sir Ralph, and took to her husband the hall and manor of Kirkby, and he assumed the name of Noel. They had an only...
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Article 10 mins
Interdisciplinary Learning – getting the most out of multi-subject degrees
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary Learning – getting the most out of multi-subject degrees

...working in a particular field and that they offer a particular focus of knowledge. When we consider interdisciplinary learning (and teaching), we are working across boundaries of knowledge and creating new knowledge from various sources. However, many of our traditional modern academic disciplines are newly created themselves. For example, when I started working, I was...
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Article 10 mins
From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...work, which draws in the viewer and opens up a very different way of relating to the subject. Oftentimes in media representations we see refugees during their journeys in an extremely vulnerable situation, we see their suffering and they are often fixed to a subject position as ‘victim’. This evokes a one-way gaze from ‘us’ (who are not – at this moment –...
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Article 5 mins
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...working alongside others and how they might develop their own capacity in this regard. The course will look towards practical approaches which place relationships at the heart of the leadership process, encouraging all of us to be confident, successful, responsible and effective within the learning situation, not only for ourselves but as advocates and supporters for each...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...work with ‘followers’ in an organisational setting...This free course, Collective leadership, will give you an insight into the importance of how to be a more effective leader, and how to better engage and work with ‘followers’ in an organisational setting. It considers the ‘heroic’ leader of the past and how leadership studies historically focused on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Duchess of Malfi: Deconstructing the play
History & The Arts

Duchess of Malfi: Deconstructing the play

...work. In 2010 the Greenwich Theatre performed The Duchess of Malfi and in this collection we follow the cast and crew as they analyse the language used by John Webster, as well as exploring different ways of understanding the text and converting his words into a performance. This material forms part of The Open University course A230 Reading and studying literature... The...
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Video 27 mins