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‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library
History & The Arts

‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library

...writing up the results now, in an article on war-time bibliotherapy co-authored with my colleague Dr Edmund King. Watch this space for further updates! Endell Street: learning, researching, expanding the story [Deeds Not Words - still from the drama] A still from the immersive drama on Endell Street Military Hospital As I say in the film, I came across Digital Drama’s...
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Article 10 mins
Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...writing plays with inferences about the comparative savagery of Victorian society and in his memorable figure of Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House (1850) he suggests that the British should pay attention to the mounting social problems at home before practising ‘telescopic’ philanthropy and missionary work abroad. (In this last concern, his writing anticipates one of the...
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Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image Lauren in Flickr made available under Creative Commons...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...write whole numbers and decimals in place-value columns and compare their sizes multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100, 1000 and so on indicate given fractions on a diagram and find equivalent fractions for a given fraction mark numbers on a number line choose appropriate units for a given purpose...Numbers, units and arithmetic: 1 The size of numbers -...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...writes about the changes in the political landscape during the past year and Scotland's future...[illustration of scotland] One year on from the September 18 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and Scotland – and the UK – are rather different places when it comes to the political landscapes that characterise the countries of these islands. The 2014 Scottish...
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Article 10 mins
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure 1: © US Federal Government Figure 2: © Good, Jack; Michie,...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...write down the names of the drinks in Italian. Listen to a group of friends ordering drinks from a waitress and try to identify what drinks they are ordering. Cameriera Buongiorno. Prego. Paolo Vorrei una birra. Anna Per me, un caffè. Tommaso Un bicchiere di vino bianco. Marisa Un tè. Filippo Un succo di frutta. Cameriera Va bene. Una birra, un caffè, un bicchiere di...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...writes six, an arm from the top writes nine.] Figure 8 A different perspective of the same image Researchers (whether they work within psychology or any other discipline) always work on the basis of particular sets of theoretical assumptions. These theoretical assumptions can sometimes be implicit and shaped by the values accepted within a particular society, culture and...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs