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Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below and within the course 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: Text Week 2, Section 8 – El Teatro Municipal de...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...writing literature (which is not true of every language). This pushed them in novel and interesting directions, allowing them to express new ideas with freshly minted words or with existing words endowed with new meanings. We catch sight of this process in the development of Latin as a philosophical language. The responsibility for this lies primarily with Cicero, who has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...write down a lot of, kind of, how I need to be prepared, what we’ve been working on, what are the strengths, what are the weaknesses, what are our threats, you know, from the opposition, from how we could go wrong and then have a very clear plan of, you know, what we’re going to achieve when we get to the race or when we get to the Olympics. And I think writing it...
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Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war
History & The Arts

Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war

...writing my second book at the moment, which pushes forward my interest in wartime endurance and resilience. This one is focused on smoking in wartime British society and culture during the period c. 1850 to c. 1950. I’m looking at smoking from as many angles as I can within this context, including the economics of tobacco supply, the everyday experience of smoking on...
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Article 5 mins
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...Write them down in a list, and then consider the following questions for each of your examples. What was the impact, or is the likely impact, of the change in the external context on your organisation? Were you, or will you be, able to mediate the change? Did the culture, or might the culture, of the country or the locality mediate the change? Has the outcome, or likely...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...creativity can even be automated. Computers already write good music for instance. What will be left are those areas of work that need the human touch. We will quickly move through the information economy into the care economy, exploring what it is we want from each other when we can automate most of the physical and mental bits of our work. […] Equipment for the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Working in the voluntary sector Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...write down everything you did in a recent activity. This could be something you completed at work, while volunteering or spending time with your family, or in your community or other position. For each task, note down roughly how much time you spent on this (either actual time in hours or as a percentage of the day). You will return to this list in Activity 2. Here is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Skills for study
Education & Development

Skills for study

...Writing and essays If you're already an OU student, the Study Support resources on StudentHome contains pointers to lots of helpful information about referencing, assignments and exams. Maths and data Digital and online skills If you're already an OU student, the Open University Library hosts Being Digital - a resource with activities to develop your skills for online...
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Article 5 mins