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An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...communicate with different forms of computing technology in order to perform some activity. The section will: illustrate the scope of interaction and the importance of interaction design draw attention to the importance of the user, the environment and the activities when considering interaction design explore the core concepts of usability and user experience highlight...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...communicates, using the score as a basis. MARK HERON: The score, I suppose, provides us with the roadmap, the guidance, the user manual, if you like. But that's the basis of which we start to interpret the music. CATHERINE TACKLEY: So in your day to day work then as a conductor, and maybe also, as a teacher of conducting, what sort of things do you do with scores? MARK...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...communicate… in a way that some people, especially the media, aren’t necessarily comfortable with’. After a long four years of almost daily dishonesty, it’s difficult to take this entirely seriously. The problem, however, is that it’s also very difficult to know how to push back against it. As the CNN article notes, the office politics around Trump’s White...
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Video 5 mins
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...communities, specific areas of the world where there’s a real crisis for certain species, I think it would be immeasurably powerful. I think people in the Himalayas for example, who will sell a snow leopard pelt because it means food for their family for a month, if they knew a bit about the behaviour, if they fell a bit in love with that animal to a certain degree, and...
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Video 30 mins
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...communal thing; it’s a release.” Perhaps, she says, because audiences tend to be squeezed together in comedy clubs, acts get to be accidental anthropologists and observe at close quarters how individuals interact when exposed to jokes or funny tales. “You [might] see a couple,” Higgins says, “and you can tell that they’re checking each other’s responses....
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Article 10 mins
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...community) take place in venues such as youth clubs. It is important to note that these are not unstructured or unplanned sessions – the difference lies in the way the music educators who lead them tend to come to the session not with fixed ideas about what is to be learned and how learning will be sequenced, but with what Smith describes as ‘a proposal for action...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...community in Northern Canada where my father is a veterinarian so I spent a lot of time on farms and I worked on farms during the school holidays and then when I went to university I worked in the forest service for five years, actually while I was an undergraduate, fighting fires. I So what did you do when you did your first degree - what subject was that in? CS Well I...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...communication in our day-to-day lives. In this free course, Una lengua en movimiento, which is taught in Spanish, you will listen to a Spanish linguist’s opinions on the matter, and explore ways in which language can be used in order to tell the same story on different media. You will learn about regional variation using a Chilean song as an example, and consider...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs