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Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...English and Arabic to every school in Oman and it’s still being shown, not only as a film about their heritage, a film about biology, but it’s also a way for them to learn English. That I am exceptionally proud of and something I wish we would do so much more of, so easy. Why rights issues are so complex… One of the reasons why I think people find it tricky to come...
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Video 40 mins
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...English Common Reader: A social history of the mass reading public (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957). Stephen Colclough, Consuming Texts: Readers and reading communities, 1695-1870 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007). Rosalind Crone, Katie Halsey and Shafquat Towheed, ‘Examining the evidence of reading: three examples from the Reading Experience Database,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...English temperate woodland, how they can provide clues about the history of local woodland and how some traditional woodland management methods can benefit biodiversity. You will also learn about the importance of ancient trees as a habitat for certain rare species of insect and fungus. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment &...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...English language (e.g. IELTS band 6 or higher), and effective academic writing skills are crucial – we will look at this in Session 2. Tutorials, seminars and day schools. You will be expected to prepare for tutorials, seminars or day schools (which may be online or face-to-face), and demonstrate initiative and personal responsibility for your own learning (having...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...English. You do not need to refer to the Latin text at any point in this course. Now re-read these opening lines. As you read this time, choose two phrases that tell you something about the themes of Ovid’s poem. Note them down and briefly explain what expectations you think they offer to readers about what sort of a poem the Metamorphoses is going to be. Discussion...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...English weren’t interested in anything that was happening in America. So we fell between two stools and we failed. Since ‘Nature’ came off air has the BBC succeeded in covering the environment? It’s played out very badly for it, and you can judge the result by the numbers of environmental programmes after Nature, almost zero. I was once at a conference with a...
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Video 20 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...English, mathematics and science in their first two years of secondary education, the curriculum remained highly gendered for most pupils. Girls were expected to learn the domestic skills of cooking, sewing and housekeeping. Alternatively, they could choose ‘commercial’ subjects such as typing and accounting, as these were the types of jobs most women could expect to...
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Article 10 mins
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...English crown in 1600. It possessed its own private army, which it used to wage war to support its aim – to generate profits for its shareholders in London. The victory of Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey, in 1757, enabled the EIC, the most ‘advanced capitalist organisation in the world’, to control Bengal, the wealthiest region in the world. Bengal’s wealth...
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Article 20 mins