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Group theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Group theory

...writing mathematical arguments are improving. You should now be able to: apply the Internal Direct Product Theorem in simple cases decide whether a given group is cyclic, and given a finite cyclic group, find a generator for a subgroup of a given order express a given finite cyclic group as the direct product of cyclic groups of prime power order and, given two direct...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
OpenLearn Ireland

Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms

...writing poetry and fan fiction, making artwork, editing videos and performing music. This can give members an opportunity to develop new skills or rediscover old interests. 5. Being in an online fandom should be fun! Online music fandoms help members momentarily escape from the stresses and challenges of daily life. They can bring out your inner child as you participate...
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Article 5 mins
Robert Burns: a man of his times for today
History & The Arts

Robert Burns: a man of his times for today

...writing is part of it, in particular his preservation in verse and song of rural and small-town Scotland that was fast disappearing in the march to modernisation. His use of humour, based on his close observation of the foibles of the people around him, combined with his vivid imagination and the remarkable potency of his language that generated popular poems such as the...
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Article 10 mins
Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity
History & The Arts

Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity

...writing a personal response and reflection to this talk. Personal reflection There is an excellent article (in my opinion) by Dr Joe Aldred titled “Are Black Churches contributing to cohesion or polarising Christians and other faith groups?”. I agree with many of his observations and conclusions, not least his inclusion of Professor Robert Beckford’s description of...
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Video 40 mins
Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...writing skills and deal sympathetically with students’ personal challenges as well as teaching the content. In response, team members Hugh Beattie and Paul-François Tremlett have set up regular online meetings between the Associate Lecturers and Central Academic colleagues to share best practice and new developments in Religious Studies as a field of study. We had a...
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Article 25 mins
How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...writing, music, and dance, have been helpful for reducing stress in a range of populations, such as refugees, survivors of abuse, and children who have experienced trauma or crisis (Carey, 2006; Malchiodi, 2020; King, 2022). Participation in the arts can also have a positive effect on people with anxiety or depression, as well as conditions such as schizophrenia, whether...
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Article 5 mins
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...writing (all too presciently): “ Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his...
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Article 15 mins
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...writing. No one knows precisely when she began her famous story, The Tale of Genji but, divided into fifty-four books or episodes, the novel is twice as long as War and Peace. The plots spans almost a hundred years and involves over four hundred characters. The hero, Hikaru Genji, seeks love and happiness, enjoys popularity at court and a series of amorous encounters. The...
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Article 5 mins