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A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...introduction to the history of writing, and the key role it plays in human communication. It tracks this history from the invention of writing around 5500 years ago to the mass popularity of emojis today...This free course, A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis, is an introduction to the history of writing, and the key role it plays in human...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...Introduction - The topics in this free course, Ratio, proportion and percentages, are concerned with dividing something into parts. For example, if there are 200 people living in a small village, and 50 of these are children, this could be expressed as a percentage: 25% of the village population are children; or as a ratio: one in every four people is a child or there is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...Project Camille Parmesan interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer CP: = Camille Parmesan, Professor, Oceans and Climate Change, Participant RH: OK Camille Parmesan, can you start with telling me how we’ve underestimated things? CP: Well, in past reports, past IPCC reports and the big event analyses that have been in the scientific literature, there have always...
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The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...project will be at the heart of the 2017 race. Questions dominate the coverage in the regional press – with papers wondering what the impact will be on French politics, whether the EU can survive a Brexit, and what will happen next – reflecting the gamble on which the future on the EU now lies. Clément Louis Kolopp contributed to this section. United States Scott...
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Article 5 mins
Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...projects and public forums. https://blamuk.org/ Black Thrive Black Thrive is a partnership between communities, statutory organisations, the voluntary, and private sector working to reduce the inequality and injustices experienced by Black people in mental health services in the London Borough of Lambeth. https://www.blackthrive.org.uk/ Kindred Minds A user-led project...
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Video 10 mins
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...Introduction - You’ll start this course by focusing on shopping, both online and in store. You’ll learn useful language for shopping, such as items of clothing, colours, and how to ask for help. You’ll also learn how to express preferences, ways of asking for and giving permission, and how to apologise. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...Introduction - Welcome to this short course looking at the relationship between places and well-being. Before you get stuck into the research in this area, start with the first activity. Activity 1: Emotion mapping Timing: 20 minutes Emotion mapping is a technique used in both therapy and research to understand how people relate to the places they live in. Have a go at...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...Introduction - The purpose of this course is to demonstrate how the UK Reading Experience Database (RED) can be used in a study of the reading habits of a writer, and how this information can be used in a literary study of that writer’s own writing. To this end we will be focussing on the reading experiences of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee. This course...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr