2,653 search results
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...world (for example, belief in ‘ley lines’ as some sort of spiritually charged network of arteries across the Earth, believed to have been recognised by ancient and pre-modern people as links between important constructions, from ancient megalith structures to medieval cathedrals). It is no wonder that, being planned in the late 1960s, Milton Keynes shows this New Age...
View course Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...world. Chinese is widely regarded as a group of related languages. This is because the Chinese language is divided into seven major dialects (with many sub-dialects): Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Mandarin, Min, Wu, and Xiang. In this course, you are going to learn the official dialect, Mandarin Chinese (also known as 中文 Zhōngwén). Another important thing to do before you s...
View course Getting started with Chinese 1
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...World War II most of the radios, phonographs, they were big, clunky and there were very expensive so chances are if a family had one it was going to be in the parlour and it would be used by the entire family. But after World War II with the rise of transistor technology these radios and phonographs they became smaller and cheaper and they could either be purchased by...
View article The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Article 10 mins
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...world but, uniquely, it also forms part of the module for students who are studying the Open University course H817 Openness and innovation in elearning...There are many different 'flavours' or interpretations of what openness means in education. This free course, Open education, is an example of a massive open online course (MOOC) and spans seven weeks. Like all the free...
View course Open education
Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...world...What affects the atmospheric and ocean flows? This free course, Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows, explores the mechanisms that are important; the most rapid carrier is the wind. The basic principle of global atmospheric circulation is simple: warm air rises and cold air sinks. How does this principle affect the atmosphere and flow of water in...
View course Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...World Wide Web, more commonly known as the internet, is an example of a vast store of information, which can be searched. The internet and the web: what’s the difference? People sometimes confuse the internet and the World Wide Web. The internet refers to the physical interconnection of large numbers of smaller data communications networks to form a huge, publicly...
View course An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Як почати навчання онлайн
Education & Development

Як почати навчання онлайн

...World War (Hirschfeld et al., 2012) and The Cambridge History of the First World War (Winter, 2014). Анніка Тож, Вінсе, наше сьогоднішнє завдання — спробувати дізнатися, скільки людей загинуло під час Першої світової війни. Це не саме просте...
View course Як почати навчання онлайн
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...world that is recognisably continuous with our own. Even where an artist depicts activities that belong to a different era, such as the bleaching of cloth in the fields surrounding the city of Haarlem (Figure 4), this simply adds a further element of interest and value. It is therefore perhaps surprising to learn that there has been vigorous debate among art historians...
View course Dutch painting of the Golden Age
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs