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Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...business and the workplace. We are also leading the way in developing short courses for academic research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...businesses, Tats Cru was once a graffiti crew that wrote illegally on subway trains. Now legitimate aerosol artists, the group incorporated in the early 1990s and has been commissioned to do work for a variety of companies such as small neighborhood businesses as well as bigger corporations such as Coca-Cola, Firestone, Reebok, the Bronx Museum of Arts, and Chivas Regal....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...business lunches: Spaniards are very particular about food and wine, and business deals are often made over lunch or dinner in a restaurant. Chatting together after a meal is known as estar de sobremesa. B Listen to the short dialogues on the following audio track and decide which are initiated by the customer and which by the waiter. Escucha y decide. What are these...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...busy inventing new ways of doing things and we need them in on the ground floor helping to figure out how to solve this problem, not people like me, whose first world is not the digital world. I can do it, but it’s not my first world. The future of Planet Earth: Optimist or pessimist? Oh, I hate this question! Well you know the question about being optimistic...
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Video 30 mins
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...business of child-rearing in the hope that they will then do more later on as well. There are a whole range of ways that social policy underpins women’s citizenship and it goes back to T. H. Marshall’s notion of the Political, Civil and Social Rights and of course social policy is quintessential about the social rights, but those three sets of rights aren’t separate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...business and languages. Or you can build your own individual science, technology, engineering and mathematics degree with the BSc Combined STEM. Finally, the MA/MSc Open is an innovative masters degree, which means you can expand your existing discipline-related knowledge to pursue options related to your professional development. People change jobs and careers throughout...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...busy and juggling lots of things, while some of you might realise that you already have time available for study. Now you have mapped out your available time for study, it is worth considering how to ensure you make the most of it in order to learn as effectively as possible. One of the things that many students tell us is that they worry about being distracted in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...business, and before they ever put pen to paper, writers are themselves, readers. Studying the recorded evidence of a famous writer’s reading can offer us wonderful insights into his or her intellectual development through time. By gathering together responses to reading, we can begin to piece together the pathways of both influence and resistance through the act of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr