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The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...world. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 3 study in Arts and Humanities...The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the terminology associated with the culture, identity and power relevant to the Roman Empire, as treated both in ancient sources and modern scholarship and...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...world phenomenon creating a mathematical model of the physical-world phenomenon and then analysing the abstraction doing some manipulations of the abstraction and in fact automating the abstraction, which then tells us more about the physical-world phenomenon that we are actually modelling. When I talk about automation and this is the whole of the talk that I am going to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...world wars actively shaped the work these writers were producing, but the social and political upheavals of Irish politics at home—from the Easter Rising to the Troubles—contributed to a truly distinctive form of Gothic writing produced in Ireland. You will be looking specifically at two examples of this writing: the short story ‘The Demon Lover’ (1945) by...
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Article 45 mins
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...world. It will explore some religious places and practices and will give more confidence to interact with contemporary religious diversity in an informed way...Religion is not necessarily what you think it is! This free course, Religious diversity: rethinking religion, introduces you to a selection of the vast variety of religious beliefs and practices in Britain today....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...World - Part 1: A Chronic Condition," Texas Impact, Camille Parmesan video interview: "So You've Got Climate Change: Living In A Warmer World - Part 2: Small Changes, Big Impacts," Texas Impact, Camille Parmesan video interview: "So You've Got Climate Change: Living In A Warmer World - Part 3: Local and Global Action," Texas Impact, Camille Parmesan video interview: "So...
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How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region

...world has never seen before”, if it does not stop threatening the US. Trump said North Korea’s threats had gone “beyond a normal state” and that “North Korea best not make any more threats”. But his reaction is at odds with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent comments that the US is open to dialogue with North Korea and is not seeking regime change....
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Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two
Society, Politics & Law

Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two

...World, sugar competes with honey as a source of sweetness. It finds other uses, too. Honey and sugar are mixed with salt by the Greeks and Romans, mainly for medicinal purposes. Yet, it is in India that sugarcane juice is first used to produce granulated sugar crystals, around about 350 CE. By the 1200s, sugar (known as "sweet salt") begins to supplant honey in Christian...
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Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...world’, before meeting with Croesus in Sardis...The Croesus story from Herodotus Book 1 chapter 6 - 95 forms the ‘Lydios logos’, the basis for this final intermediate activity in the OpenLearn Herodotus Collection. We have selected sections for you to enquire into how Herodotus’ narrative is linked with places in the Classical world. You may like to explore the...
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Activity 5 mins