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Supporting children's development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children's development

...a deeper understanding of children's development from early years up to the age of 17. You will focus on topics including the development and management of relationships, encouraging reading, behavioural management, special educational needs and the importance of reflective practice. Transcript If you are interested in studying this course, visit the course website here....
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52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Educational Film (University) Award at the Learning on Screen Awards 2020. We condensed Homer’s enormous poems The Iliad and The Odyssey into two award-winning animations. Brad Pitt doesn’t feature, but the dulcet tones of Don Warrington do (see the video below). Our most popular course over the years is, Start Writing Fiction. Give it a whirl if you aspire to be the...
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53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Educational Film (University) Award at the Learning on Screen Awards 2020. We condensed Homer’s enormous poems The Iliad and The Odyssey into two award-winning animations. Brad Pitt doesn’t feature, but the dulcet tones of Don Warrington do (see the video below). Our most popular course over the years is, Start Writing Fiction. Give it a whirl if you aspire to be the...
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Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...technologies that enable the IoE and the internet of things...The internet of everything, and all of the connected things on the internet, are here to stay. There is considerable hype in the media – good and bad – that makes it difficult to work out if this connectedness is a good thing or a bad thing. Or, should we be indifferent about the internet of everything?...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...education and almost all vestiges of the language from public and state existence. Many Irish language speakers in the north today will point to the founding of Gaeltacht Bhóthar Seoighe, the first urban Gaeltacht in Ireland in over 100 years, as the beginning of the current revival, which led directly to the birth of Scoil Ghaeilge Bhéal Feirste (now Bunscoil Phobal...
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How the stove changed the kitchen
Society, Politics & Law

How the stove changed the kitchen

...replaced kitchen ranges and open fires. Changes in dwelling design and other technologies, such as the gas or electric fire and hot water geezer, played a significant role in altering the function of the ‘kitchen’. Yet it is only by looking at actual space usage and deployment of technology that we can understand the nuances of when, and how, these changes occurred....
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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...Technology (MIT) for Professor Edward N. Lorenz, the pioneer of chaos theory, programming early computers to predict weather. She had to learn her trade hands-on as no taught software courses existed and among her credits, she promoted the term “software engineering” to provide legitimacy to the science and set it on a par with other types of engineering (Cameron...
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World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen

...education and the means to attain some measure of autonomy. One woman who took advantage of these opportunities was Hildegard of Bingen. Born in the Rhineland, the tenth child of noble parents, Hildegard was educated from the age of eight at the Benedictine monastery at Mount St Disibode. She took her religious vows in her teens. Having experienced prophetic visions from...
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