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What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...English Landscape in 1955. While Hoskins’ was the first book to examine landscape change systematically, many before him had attempted to observe and explain the landscape and the impact of human activity upon it. Here you will see how map-makers, travel writers and collectors have all contributed to historians’ evidence of landscape and environment change. An...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...English with pictures from as early as the sixteenth century: for example, an illustrated 1503 edition of a crusader adventure story, Bevis of Hampton, by Richard Pynson, shows pencil doodlings in the margins that suggest a child’s hand. The earliest known illustrated book specifically produced for children was a Latin text book, dating from the seventeenth century and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...English Channel. But why do people decide to take on such extreme feats of endurance and to what extent is the body able to support them before reaching exhaustion? Using a multidisciplinary perspective you will explore these questions and reach a better understanding of what the human body is capable of. This OpenLearn course is an example of level 1 study in Sport and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...English are still important, and they should be. However, the Industrial Revolution required learners with these skills because the focus of employment during this period was to expand mechanically, technically and scientifically and this required the knowledge and skills required from these subjects. To make learning and assessment easier, where assessment of learning...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...English (2012), which represents grassroot leader’s goals for change, their actions and strategies. This model positions these leaders as being consensual or conflictual, who aim for change that is reforming or refining (see Table 1). Table 1: A model of change goals and grassroot leadership actions and strategies (based on Ehrich & English, 2012) Approaches to change...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...English translation into our language and numerals. The middle section is a transcription of the text itself (which is written in a script called hieratic) into hieroglyphic, the standard script in which Egyptologists work, with an indication of the sounds and numeral values. (You may have noticed other features too, such as that hieroglyphic and the original...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...English, for example with his version of Amsterdam and cover of Brel’s La Mort. Being a true rock legend is undoubtedly a more glamorous and rebellious career than that of an academic. However, both pursuits require creativity and the channelling of different ideas and sources. So, I will turn to my desk to write, just like Bowie sighs and sings I will sit right down,...
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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...English edition as Salt in the Wound) was based on his experience as a schoolteacher in his hometown. His descriptions of poverty, fascism, and corruption in the Church and town hall were based on real events and became dominant themes in his later writing. Education informed their respective interrogations of wider cultures. Williams’s writing on culture was influenced...
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Article 10 mins