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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. Thus, all originality is relative. Every thinker is...
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Article 15 mins
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...creative solutions. Week 6 focuses on the particular challenges and characteristics of collaboration across organisational boundaries, and the implications for leadership. It explores the tensions which arise for leadership in inter-organisational contexts. Week 7 explores an issue which underlies much of collaborative working, but which often remains hidden – power....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...writings about music, you will often find a distinction made between historical musicology (the history of music and musical practices), music theory (the study of how music is constructed) and ethnomusicology (the study of music cultures). You may also encounter the term ‘systematic musicology’, frequently used in central Europe, which refers to a range of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...writing letters to newspapers about the use of “hopefully” and what have you. I think it’s because we are very attached to the idea of a standard written form of language, with fixed rules that we learned at school, and these somehow represent the correct form of the language. But lots of these rules we’ve learned, the kind of thing, you know, of don’t put a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...writing, some 1500–2000 years earlier still (see Figure 1). [Figure 1] Figure 1 By the middle of the third millennium BC, the writing style had evolved into the highly abstract and unrepresentational cuneiform (‘wedge-shaped’) script. This script, which was used initially for writing down words in the Sumerian language, was later also adopted by neighbouring...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Bowie as a conduit
History & The Arts

Bowie as a conduit

...writes about how Bowie influenced his tastes...[David Bowie Street art in Brixton, South London] I first listened to David Bowie aged fourteen in 1981. He was my first foray outside of the puritanical fastnesses of Punk Rock. Punk joyously declared the music of its immediate forebears dated, dead, overblown: 1977 was a year zero past which you didn’t dare explore for...
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Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...writing, fluency over accuracy, and comprehension over production. As teachers, we were impressed by how capable our language students were to take on the role of peer teacher as well as active learner. Implementing ‘Flipped’ principles into our distance language learning module has confirmed to us that distance education already presumes an active form of learning....
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Article 10 mins
Play families: Using toys to open up communication with your child
Education & Development

Play families: Using toys to open up communication with your child

...writing, are not natural for children. Most children have vivid imaginations and acting out their thoughts and feelings through imaginative play is very natural for them. They call it playing! What is the point of this game? You may have heard about experts using play as a therapy with children, but in fact there is no great mystery to this activity. It can be a fun way...
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