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Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...writings and assesses their historical significance. In particular, it examines the contribution that Evangelicalism, the religious tradition to which Wilberforce belonged, made in the transitions between the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Throughout it relates Wilberforce's career and writings to wider social and cultural developments in Britain, with special regard for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...Write down the important information you need to know to work out the number of rolls of wallpaper required. Remember, you can click on ‘reveal comment’ for additional help. Comment Try drawing a sketch, and think through the steps you would take to apply new wallpaper in your kitchen. Answer This is how Rebecca, a student, tackled the problem. Her notes are given...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...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 course: In line with the British Museum’s wishes and aims to encourage the dissemination...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...Creative Archive’ Well again that was an innovation project, so for the Creative Archive, as I say, was a trial to see what the appetite for people’s interaction with the archive was. If you give them a body of archive content, how creative do they want to be with it? And it was a very early project, it didn’t have the participation levels that you do now, but it...
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Video 30 mins
What is The Wilson Doctrine? The one minute guide
Society, Politics & Law

What is The Wilson Doctrine? The one minute guide

...writing] In 1966, alarmed at suggestions that security services were listening in to MPs' phone calls, then Prime Minister Harold Wilson pledged in the House of Commons that this would not happen: I reviewed the practice when we came to office and decided on balance—and the arguments were very fine— [...] that I should give this instruction that there was to be no...
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Article 1 min
Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...and an Observer columnist since 1987. I am now the paper’s Technology columnist writing a weekly column and occasional OpEds and editorials.” John is author of three books: A Brief History of the Future: the origins of the Internet 1999); From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet (2012); and 100 Not Out: A Lockdown Diary (2020)”...
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Audio 15 mins
Chinese at the tip of your tongue: Culture behind the numbers
Languages

Chinese at the tip of your tongue: Culture behind the numbers

...people use one hand to signify numbers. Yī, èr, sān, sì, wŭ, liù, qī, bā, jiŭ, shí. If you want to learn how to write the numbers from one to ten on a mobile device, you can free download the Open University’s “Chinese Characters First Steps” app, following the link on the website. Dur: 3’30” Inspired? Learn beginner's Chinese with The Open University...
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Video 5 mins
Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...writing 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2, we write 26. This is read (and said) as ‘2 to the power 6’; 6 is the index or the power. In general, this means that a super n equals a multiplication a multiplication a multiplication a full stop full stop full stop full stop full stop full stop to n postfix times factors where n is called the index, or the power, of a. Both a and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs