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Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...public artworks, designed to win over the Mexican peasantry and working-class to the new post-revolutionary state, brought Mexican mural artists international acclaim and Rivera was subsequently awarded important commissions in the United States. Yet, due to his commitment to a figurative form of propaganda, Rivera’s reputation suffered during the Cold War period and...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...public sectors of the economy. In fact, it applies to all organisations, whatever their nature and form. An organisation without the necessary understanding of its cost structure and cost control is rather like a rudderless ship, lacking clear direction and at risk of breaking up when it meets the shore. Costs are shown in external financial statements (such as the income...
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...public. This track may be from a completely different source with a quite different sound, in which case the mastering engineer would have to adjust the sound to make it compatible with the existing material. In other scenarios an album may be compiled from many separate recordings. As you will see from this digital booklet, the producer, recording engineers, musicians...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...public arena, and I felt a duty to provide a forum for people who would otherwise be more or less ignored. RH: Are you a kind of natural contrarian – BP: I guess there is something in me – RH: It’s something that you want to push back against a consensus – BP: Yes, in a way I am a natural contrarian, but on the other hand I am also someone who wants to have a...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...health and depression identify the role of stress in burnout. First you will look at how sport and training can have negative effects on athletes as in the case of Jonathan Trott who suffered burnout through prolonged stress and imbalance between training, competition and limited downtime. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us...
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...public or non-profit sector. This is achieved through a variety of learning techniques, including case studies, videos, activities and group discussions. Supporting this learning, students are encouraged to become critical thinkers about both how they undertake their own decisions, as well as how marketing influences our society...This free course, Marketing in the 21st...
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...health and everything else, it’s not this niche new thing, it’s now an issue that most people are globally aware of, but it’s also got its detractors and its critics, so they’re always quick to jump on any kind of inaccuracy, so I think in environmental filmmaking you need to be even more careful and stringent with your facts. Climate change: A BBC film that made...
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...public really, so we’re in touch with everybody around us and everybody that’s following our work and we can really produce exactly what it is that they want to see, so I suppose we’re kind of ticking all the boxes as quickly as possible, whereas TV, they produce fantastic quality stuff but it doesn’t necessarily meet everybody’s requirements of exactly what it...