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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...community there, as Christian refugees fled from Muslim expansion. The result of the influx of scholars, coupled with a rapid expansion of the printing industry, was that in the second half of the fifteenth century Venice became the main centre of Greek learning in the West. For the Florentine Giorgio Vasari, writing in the sixteenth century, his sense of a ‘rebirth’...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...communication and many other services that we take for granted. Without them, for example, you wouldn't be reading this page or studying this OpenLearn course. The technological basis of our society has undergone major transformations in the last two centuries and whether you regard such changes as 'progress' or not, today you would probably find it hard to manage without...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...communicate abstract ideas, which the viewer grasps by interpreting the painting’s symbolic or allegorical content. The painting appears to be a representation of an everyday scene, but it contains hidden meanings that the iconographer must seek to decode. The best way to understand this argument is to consider an example, which you will do so in the next
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...communication – for instance, in letting others know how we feel and what the consequences, pleasant or unpleasant, might be if they approach us. A consequence of the evolutionary heritage we share with other animals, in particular mammals such as rats, and even more so, monkeys and apes, is that there is significant similarity in the biological bases of many of our...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...communicated by these words and ideas. The essence of systems thinking and practice is in ‘seeing’ the world in a particular way, because how you ‘see’ things affects the way you approach situations or undertake specific tasks. And how you ‘see’ things is influenced heavily by the culture of the society in which you live and work and by your education and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...community ownership of energy was one of the stimuli there, big communities wanted to feel self-sufficient. They actually started off a vested interest almost, in investing in the solar energy. In developing countries the driver is a different kind of thing, it was access to energy, being able to leapfrog the idea that you didn’t need to put in electricity lines,...
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Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...communication, interpersonal skills and team-working and encouraging you to become more aware of your own approaches to these aspects of your work life. The majority of the ideas and techniques in this course form the basis of many short management training courses of the type you or your manager(s) may have attended. The course concludes with some study advice on writing...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...communicate with humans, at which point perhaps they become able to receive and process streams of sensory information by being temporarily attached or ‘housed’ in a material body. Indeed, according to scholastic theological tradition, since angels do not have bodies they must borrow unused ones in order to deliver messages to earth. It is important to realise just...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs