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Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...writing pitch using staff notation, and learn to perform short musical extracts from notation...In this free course, you will explore the concept of musical pitch by working with examples of folk, popular, and classical music from several world traditions. You will learn how pitch is represented using staff notation and other forms of illustration. You will also practise...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...writing on the front of the fire engine? It is BOMBEROS. As well as saying what you do and where you work / who you work for, you might want to give some details about the activities that you carry out as part of your job. In this activity you will learn how to say a little about what a job entails. Paso A Write full sentences in the first person (yo) using ser and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...ideas and sources. So, I will turn to my desk to write, just like Bowie sighs and sings I will sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision - Sound And Vision Transcript Further reading Jean Racine, Andromaque in Œuvres complètes, edited by Raymond Picard and published by Gallimard, 1990. The play was written in 1667 and first performed the same year....
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Article 5 mins
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...writing software for the program. Her programming skills led to her promotion to head of the Apollo Software Engineering Division, where she and her colleagues wrote and developed code for the guidance and control systems of the in-flight command and lunar modules of the Apollo missions (McMillan 2015; Spicer 2017). In the process, Hamilton and her team established the...
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Article 5 mins
Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?
Money & Business

Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?

...write after November’s overshoot. But domestic events may have compounded the rise in UK costs. The pound has depreciated by 10-15% in the five years since the Brexit referendum vote. This puts upward pressure on everything the country imports, including half its gas and 45% of its food. New trade frictions due to Brexit have added to import prices – though some...
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Article 5 mins
Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...writing. By focusing a critical lens on academic life, this collection contributes to an increasing body of research interested in universities and the realities for the academics who exist within them. If Burton Clark’s 1987 book The Academic Life began the conversation around the effects of changes such as massification and marketisation, then The Digital Academic...
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Article 5 mins
Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...writing CVs and improving interview skills developing career resilience and succeeding at work using technology more confidently reflecting and improving on communication, creativity, interpersonal and teamworking skills learning and/or enhancing entrepreneurial skills finding out more about volunteering and internships considering next steps when being made redundant or...
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Article 10 mins
“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...writes about a lively and militant strike by public sector nursery nurses in Scotland...Find out more about The Open University's Social Sciences courses Setting the scene When we think about things like militancy, trade unionism, struggle and fightback, we draw on familiar imagery of braziers at shipyard gates and pitheads. We think of charged mass meetings, packed full...
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Article 10 mins