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Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...writing moments when I thought carefully about every word; about whether I would be understood or misunderstood. The Belfast Telegraph used my photograph alongside a short blurb: How - after Saturday - do you begin to explain to people that the dissidents are not an IRA? That Saturday was March 7th 2009; when another murder scene was painted onto the canvas of an...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...write legal documents that protected slave ‘owners’. How, then, should we approach what seems to be a double standard: freedom for some but not all? To what extent should we draw upon – or disregard – thinkers who lived in a vastly different world to ours, and correspondingly held very different beliefs? To explore these questions, you are first going to look at...
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Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...creative work) weak literacy can be an issue. You will need to consider issues like these as you support student self and peer assessment...Assessment in secondary geography: 3.4 Summary - The type of assessment used influences the type of student learning: a focus on formulaic testing can encourage ‘teaching to the test’ to maximise performance and may result in...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...writing, fairly recent examples in the United Kingdom include the ‘Horizon IT scandal’ and the crisis of funding for the National Health Service (NHS). The ongoing climate crisis provides a more global example of systemic failure. In all cases, these are not simple, isolated errors but complex failures with social, technical and political dimensions, with multiple and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...writing for Charities’ Facebook sites, local radio broadcasts, ‘Street Art’ projects etc. Activity 1: Think about Whatever your objectives, look at the comments below to help you assess what you want from voluntary work. A range of volunteers give their reasons for wanting to get involved. Try and think which voluntary activities might meet their needs, then look at...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...write a short guide on what you think makes for the best opening for a talk. Remember: There aren’t any hard and fast rules for introductions. What might suit one speaker’s presentation style may not work for everyone. You might want to think about Bill Davenhall’s talk or the one you will present yourself to give some focus...Week 1: Getting started: 1.2.3 From...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below 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: Images Figure 1: © Andrew Rich/Getty Images Figure 2: © Sjo / iStock /Getty...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...write down your thoughts on the following questions. REPORTER Police in Northern Ireland have used water cannon tonight as more petrol bombs and fireworks were thrown on the seventh night of violence on the streets of Belfast. The renewed unrest comes despite a plea for calm from the British and Irish prime ministers, who issued a joint statement this evening. Police say...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs