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Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...English settlers established political control over Ireland in the seventeenth century, they created social and legal systems that designated the Irish as ‘uncivilised’ and therefore, in English eyes, as inferior. [An illustration of an octopus with human hands and a human head. The octopus is labelled ‘England’ and its hands are ‘grabbing’ different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Getting started with French 3
Languages

Getting started with French 3

...English ‘I am looking for’. Où est/Où sont + le/la/les + noun Où est la gare? La gare, c’est où? Where is the station? Où sont les toilettes? Les toilettes, c’est où? Where are the toilets? Note: C’est où? is another, more informal, way to ask ‘Where is/Where are …?’ Il y a/Est-ce qu’il y a + un/une + noun + près d’ici/par ici? Il y a un...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...everyday. Do you talk to your kids everyday? About everything that’s going on? Everything? Speaker Two Yeah. Vivian McConvey You don’t say, I’m gonna sit down tonight and consult with you. Speaker Two They would run out the door. Vivian McConvey They would. So what are you doing with your kids? Speaker Two We need to talk to them. We need to have that conversation...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...English Letters appear in 1734 and are a very early example of the great valuation that the Philosophs put upon his technique. The article in the Encyclopaedia is enormously long in comparison to the apparently insignificant nature of the procedure. One of the things about inoculation that must have appealed to the Philosophs was it’s simplicity, this wasn’t an arcane...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...everyday life. But how can interactions be designed to best meet their purpose and offer good user experience? This free course, An introduction to interaction design, explores this topic. You will learn: what interaction design is; the importance of user-centred design - with its goals and principles; how interaction design focuses on the characteristics of the user,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...everyday lives. Plastics are some of the most useful materials on Earth. They are almost entirely man-made, and the world around us would look very different without them. But they can also present challenges to the environment and human health. For example, there is growing concern about plastic materials (Eriksen et al., 2014) and microplastics (Vandermeersch et al.,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...everyday existence. Whether you’re sharing an amusing story down the pub, making a self-deprecating joke after someone pays you a compliment or telling a dark joke at a funeral, humour is everywhere. But what is it for? And can humour, as comedy, change how we feel, what we think or even what we do? As an integral part of human interaction, humour has been on the minds...
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Article 10 mins
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...everyday familiar with fresh academic eyes. One thing that happens to a number of professional doctorates is that their sense of who they are changes. They assume a new identity. Dr Aubrey-Smith asks Kathy how her sense of self developed during her professional doctorate journey? Kathy believes that all students begin their professional doctorate journey suffering from...
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Article 5 mins