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52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...English as a first language, luckily we have a course for that, English: Skills for Learning. 14% of learners on OpenLearn have a disability. We’re big on accessibility as a result of this. We’re advocates of employability and have a range of free courses for the workplace to give you the additional skills employers increasingly value. Studying making you stressed? We...
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Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...English seafaring triumph using appropriately strong, forthright and rumbustious melodies. In contrast, John Ireland's setting of John Masefield's Sea Fever (1913) is an elegiac celebration of the freedom of the open sea drawing on a romantic idealisation of the seafaring life central to ideas of British identity. [Henry Wood] William Walton's (1902-1983) overture...
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Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...Everyday fact-finding - Fact-finding is something that people do day-in, day-out with such ease that they rarely think about it. Fact-finding is a type of inference. Inference is where we draw conclusions by combining evidence that we hear or see with existing knowledge. For example, when a person’s mobile phone alarm goes off (evidence) and even before they open their...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Tumble And Twirl: David Bowie and gender transgression
Society, Politics & Law

Tumble And Twirl: David Bowie and gender transgression

...everyday life. The fashion industry barometer has sensed a flame fuelling the zeitgeist of retro fashion and transgendered identity. Fashion designers, fans and identity-forming youth, have jumped aboard the drag-ship and participated in the cyclical re-enactment of gender transgression. Just when many thought Bowie had outgrown gender play, at the age of 66 he confounded...
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The gift of being a foster carer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The gift of being a foster carer

...everyday as a foster carer is a new challenge, and yes there is still stress at times but unlike my previous jobs I know that I am making a difference to someone else’s life every day. Some days are tough and I’ve learnt to be everything from detective to counsellor, taxi driver to teacher but those days where you see the children in your care flourish make it all...
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Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?
History & The Arts

Ancient ideas: where does the soul go?

...everyday mortals, as long as they had lived morally good lives and fulfilled their civic and social duties. [White-ground lekythos (c.450BC). Hermes guides a departed spirit towards the ferryman Charon.] White-ground lekythos (c.450BC). Hermes guides a departed spirit towards the ferryman Charon. The images above are from the Met Museum's open access / public domain...
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The history of surfing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The history of surfing

...everyday commitments and lifestyles, or in terms of their ideas and attitudes to life. Find out more Introducing environment is a short course, designed for those with little scientific knowledge. Environment - journeys through a changing world introduces you to environmental studies and the consequences of environmental changes. Environment shows you how you can...
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