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Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale
History & The Arts

Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale

...Obi-Wan Kenobi, who answers him, is my favourite character: a fairy godfather if ever I saw one. ‘These are not the droids you’re looking for’, he says, altering reality in a later scene. The experience of redemptive love, to which his counsel eventually leads Luke, is a yet more impressive aspect of his gift. Try your hand at writing with these free courses...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to mental health science
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to mental health science

...free, advanced level courses serve as an introduction to Masters level study in neurosciences and mental health...This suite of three courses focuses first on anxiety (Exploring anxiety), then depression (Exploring depression), and finally explores the relationship between these conditions (Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression). They will help you to...
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Article 5 mins
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...free course, Creating open educational resources, will help you to write a learning course and provide you with links to various resources for open-learning materials. You will learn about the different purposes of self-instruction and receive advice about the techniques and strategies to help the learner...Are you interested in creating your own open educational...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...free course, Childhood in the digital age, delves into the lives of children and discuss the potential benefits and limitations of technology in their lives...Are you a technology optimist or a technology pessimist? Are you worried about how children and young people are using digital technology so much more during this pandemic, or do you think it can only be good for...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...free course, Basic science: understanding numbers, explains how you can use numbers to describe the natural world and make sense of everything from atoms to oceans...This practical, hands-on free course will help you to start thinking like a scientist, by using numbers to describe and understand the natural world. It might be the size of the Greenland ice sheet, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...free course you will be introduced to the subject of International Relations (IR). You will learn how IR seeks to analyse vital global problems and the key actors and issues involved. In the course you will explore two contemporary case studies: the competition between great powers like the USA and China for access to Africa’s resources; and the global efforts to combat...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...free course, Attention, will help you to examine how we 'pay attention'. How do we manage to single out sounds and images that require attention and how easy is it to distract someone and why...What does 'attention' mean to you? This free course, Attention, will help you to examine how we 'pay attention'. How do we manage to single out sounds and images that require...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...free course that will help those with a background in biology understand the historical development of vaccination, assess the various types of vaccines used today, examine their production and explore the limitations that are placed on vaccination programmes...Vaccinations are now considered a part of everyday life, but how do they work? Vaccination is a free course that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs