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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...Creative powers could be used to illuminate and transform the world into a coherent vision, to regenerate mankind spiritually. Given the centrality of the poetic imagination, poets could therefore claim to be interpreters of reality. Shelley asserted that ‘Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.’ The Romantics found fresh ways to express themselves:...
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Article 10 mins
Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...helped NASA to put humans into space. But as an African-American woman, her legacy is perhaps even greater. She has given us a role model, showing that if we have the determination, our skills and talents can take us as high as we wish to fly.[The Conversation] This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
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Article 10 mins
An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...creative. They frame ethics as usability issues. They build prototypes that highlight what could go wrong. They use the language their organisation already values – things like risk or innovation – to make their point heard. This is ethics done through practice – situated in everyday decisions, shaped by workplace power dynamics in which designers operate (Foucault,...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: From left to right: PintoArt / Shutterstock; Srdjanns74 / iStock...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...writes a letter of resignation. Most people would infer from this description of events that Larry is angry. Still, on the face of it, nothing explicit has been said about Larry's emotional state. Instead, we have been given a very complex description, involving a number of different elements. An eliciting event or situation: Bella tells Larry that his project has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...writing a present-tense, very detailed account of what that trauma was. And then you read it. And you read it over and over and over and over again, until eventually you become desensitised to it. And I think really that was one of the most powerful steps in the app. And so because I was guided by the therapists, they were meeting me regularly, I felt confident enough to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...writing. The course focuses on the many ways in which living languages - notably Spanish - adapt to the contexts in which they are used...This free course, Advanced Spanish: Language in context, will develop your knowledge and understanding of the societies and cultures of Spain and Latin America and extend the practical skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing....
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs