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Metric spaces and continuity
Science, Maths & Technology

Metric spaces and continuity

...writing mathematical arguments are improving. You should now be able to: understand the Euclidean distance function on Rn and appreciate its properties, and state and use the Triangle and Reverse Triangle Inequalities for the Euclidean distance function on Rn explain the definition of continuity for functions from Rn to Rmand determine whether a given function from Rn to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
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
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
How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Education & Development

How can we improve teaching about Islam?

...writings and Islam, as exemplified in his “West-Eastern Diwaan,” a collection of poems. This epitome of world literature was modeled after classical Persian poetry in its style, and inspired by Sufism, the mystical tradition in Islam. Most students are open to seeing these connections, even if it might require overcoming their own preconceptions about Islam. For...
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Article 5 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
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...writing kind of individual who would kind of take gardens back into the borders and the pansies and the flowers and ... George McKay: Yeah, but look what happened there. I mean I think that's interesting, that switch. I mean, before Hamilton [as presenter] there's Percy Thrower, who was actually sidelined out of the job because he starts doing adverts for ICI fertilisers...
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Article 15 mins
EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...writing your dissertation and preparing your presentation, so it’s a good idea to think about how you will cope. Receiving feedback [Emotional responses to receiving feedback: crying, anger and happiness.]Figure 4 A range of emotions are felt on receiving feedbackShow descriptionFigure 4 is a cartoon of three people. The first, a child, is crying. The second, a woman,...
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Article 5 mins
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...writings of John Woolman and his fellow Quakers that there was an organised and principled critique of slavery in Britain. The British anti-slavery abolitionist movement that is most heralded today, however, emerged in the 1780s, and was underscored with ideas of free trade and free labour. For the British anti-slavery abolitionists ‘coerced labour‘ (i.e. slavery) was...
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Article 20 mins