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Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...publicity campaigns for Amnesty International, they are now writing for an online magazine News Channel. Both of these activities allow them to be really flexible with their commitment, and work odd hours at home. This is vital as they travel for their job a lot. ‘I’ve always been good at sport and my boss suggested I try coaching. He said it would also look good on...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...public audience. Almost eleven years later, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting the world’s first regular high-definition television service, on the 2nd of November 1936. Television broadcasts were suspended with the outbreak ofthe Second World War. When they resumed in 1946, television started to become very successful, especially in Britain...
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Article 15 mins
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...public to crowdsource metadata into our crown jewels, our archive, is a fascinating idea. It’s finding someone to fund it that I think is the real challenge. It’s very easy in our modern day of cuts and rationalisation and all of that to see that as a quaint, passion project and what’s going to be the result of it? I think there may also be, from a BBC point of...
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Video 40 mins
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...publicity, his Europe-wide contacts among influential people, including crowned heads – notably Frederick the Great of Prussia and Empress Catherine the Great of Russia – and above all by his inimitable style, pointedly ironic, forceful, mischievous, malicious and funny. Voltaire never missed his target. He made the authorities, the ecclesiastical perpetrators of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...public imagination. Together with the anti-Vietnam War movement and the counterculture, the civil rights movement has become part of the popular memory of the 1960s, helping to characterise the decade as a period of rapid transformation and upheaval. But how successful, ultimately, was this struggle for racial equality? Was it a radical, revolutionary movement, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...Health Service (NHS) or its equivalent, only after patients have undergone genetic counselling. This is defined as the provision of information and advice about inherited disorders, and includes helping people to: Understand medical facts; Appreciate the way in which inheritance contributes to the disease in question; Understand the options for dealing with the disorder;...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...public funding? What is the relationship between marketing, box office returns and film success? The course will examine these topics in the film industry as it stands today, as well as considering how further changes could impact the industry and its stakeholders. This course material was originally written for FutureLearn in 2015. It was published on OpenLearn in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...health, gambling and alcohol addictions (BBC Sport, 2024). In Activity 2 you will hear from three people, Lowri Morgan, Nick Nicholson and Tim Gardner, who choose to take on extreme endurance challenges. They will explain their own motivations and Greg Roebuck from Monash University will provide an academic’s viewpoint on this key topic within sport and exercise...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs