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Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...Latin America are starting to take these courses, and yet the leaders in those countries, the university leaders that should be exporting, let’s say, their view of knowledge,or their unique knowledge contributions that they have to make, they’re joining these systems and playing within that structure, so I would really like to see individual countries who have the...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Advanced Spanish: Arts and crafts
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Arts and crafts

...Latin-American art and explore the difference between art and craft...This free course, Advanced Spanish: Arts and crafts, is designed to develop your knowledge and understanding of Spanish-speaking societies and cultures and extend the practical skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. You will examine the world of Spanish and Latin-American art and explore...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...Latin characters with diacritics, nor for languages that do not use a Latin alphabet at all. This was a major problem with the ever more widespread use of computers and processors. It took a long time for an acceptable international standard to emerge but since 2007, the standard encoding system for characters has been Unicode Transformation Format-8 (UTF-8) which uses a...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...Latin ‘sanctus’, meaning ‘saint’. Another way that Raphael associated himself with Christ was through self-portraiture, a topic to which we will now turn...Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael: 2.8 Christ’s portrait - In 1590 one of Raphael’s biographers, Giovanpaolo Lomazzo, wrote that ‘his face resembled the one that all the greatest painters use to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...Latin text book, dating from the seventeenth century and translated into English in 1659. In the first activity for this course you will watch a video which explores the history of children’s book illustrations. Activity 1 Iona and Peter Opie’s famous collection of children’s books was acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1988 and contains approximately 20 000 books...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...Latin for 'wonderful net'), or simply rete. DA links this rete to an ability to maintain a grip. How might this happen? Highly active muscles require a continuous supply of oxygen and blood-borne nutrients; muscle fatigue can be minimised by the removal of lactic acid. The accumulation of lactic acid limits the action of our own muscles during heavy exertion; it is also...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...Latin word for a cloud or fog. The term became used to describe any object that had a fuzzy appearance, rather than the sharper form of a star. In modern astronomy, the term nebula is now used in a more precise way. However, until the early twentieth century the physical nature of many of the ‘fuzzy’ extended objects in the sky was not well understood, and so the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...Latin American countries, for example, are more unequal than some Asian countries even though they are all usually described as less developed countries). So, the links between levels of inequality, child and adult morbidity, premature mortality, life expectancy, and slow development can be clearly demonstrated. It’s also clear that many of these factors are bound up...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs