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Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...English proficiency), Indigenous peoples, children and pregnant women, older adults, vulnerable occupational groups, persons with disabilities, and persons with pre-existing or chronic medical conditions. (Global Change, 2016) Whatever your sector, a good place to start when teaching climate justice is the Climate Impact Map, an evidence-based tool featuring...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...English settlers established political control over Ireland in the seventeenth century, they created social and legal systems that designated the Irish as ‘uncivilised’ and therefore, in English eyes, as inferior. [An illustration of an octopus with human hands and a human head. The octopus is labelled ‘England’ and its hands are ‘grabbing’ different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...English towns and cities. North of the border a General Convention of the Friends of the People in Scotland met in 1792. Apart from an extreme fringe, this was a movement for peaceful constitutional change rather than violent revolution. It was also strongly and effectively opposed at a popular level by loyalist’ organisations that upheld the existing social and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Getting started with French 3
Languages

Getting started with French 3

...English ‘I am looking for’. Où est/Où sont + le/la/les + noun Où est la gare? La gare, c’est où? Where is the station? Où sont les toilettes? Les toilettes, c’est où? Where are the toilets? Note: C’est où? is another, more informal, way to ask ‘Where is/Where are …?’ Il y a/Est-ce qu’il y a + un/une + noun + près d’ici/par ici? Il y a un...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...English prison. Originally drawn in the late 1700s by Francis Wheatley. Note the squalor of the prison, the lack of separation between men and women, and the presence of children, imprisoned with their mothers. Howard’s work was extremely influential and informed a raft of legislation which encouraged local authorities to reform their prisons. Between 1780 and 1799,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...English painter John Everett Millais’s Spring (Apple Blossoms). Millais still follow tradition in associating the season with young girls – by contrast, the French painter Camille Pissarro omitted any human presence from his painting of trees in blossom in the town of Pontoise, while Vincent Van Gogh’s painting of almond blossom eliminates everything but branches...
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Video 15 mins
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...English end-of-life care’. Unpublished PhD thesis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Glaser, B. G. and Strauss, A. L. (1965) Awareness of Dying, Chicago, Aldine. Foucault, M. (1977) Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (trans. Sheridan, A.), Harmondsworth, Penguin. Hochschild, A. (1983) The Managed Heart: The Commercialisation of Human Feeling, Berkeley,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Getting started with French 2
Languages

Getting started with French 2

...English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy and research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs