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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...Introduction - Do you want to get more out of drama? This course is designed to develop the analytical skills you need for a more in-depth study of literary plays. You will learn about dialogue, stage directions, blank verse, dramatic structure and conventions and aspects of performance. It's not necessary for you to have previously read any of the plays mentioned in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...Introduction - In this coursewefocus upon a specific novel, and consider some of the different ways in which it can be read. We do this by identifying its genre, or the kind of writing it belongs to. The novel as a kind of writing continuously involved in offering representations of the everyday, of the past and present world, is inevitably bound up with the different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...managing pets.” Not to mention worries over hygiene and disease. Much of the evidence of the benefit from PARO is based on informal observation (though there have also been more controlled trials). In one pilot study, three New Zealand researchers investigated a small group of residents in a care home for the elderly. Each resident spent a short period handling,...
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Video 15 mins
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...Introduction - Are you ever frustrated with something that you thought you could design better? Perhaps something at work, or in your local community? Design thinking can structure your natural creativity to come up with solutions to all kinds of problems, and have fun during the process too! In this course, you will find a mix of inspirational readings, ‘how to’...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...Introduction - This free course, Hadrian’s Rome, explores the city of Rome during the reign of the emperor Hadrian (117–138 CE). What impact did the emperor have upon the appearance of the city? What types of structures were built and why? And how did the choices that Hadrian made relate to those of his predecessors, and also of his successors? Hadrian provides an...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...Project Michael Jacobs interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer MJ: = Michael Jacobs special adviser to Gordon Brown from 2004-10, participant RH: So I’m in a restaurant in Bonn and the climate change talks have just broken for the evening, in so far as they ever do properly break, and I’m sitting having a beer, a Kölsch, which is a speciality beer from...
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Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...Introduction - In this free course, Art and the Mexican Revolution, you will explore the significance of certain murals by the artist Diego Rivera. While Rivera is now often known (if he is known at all) as the husband of Frida Kahlo, he was in fact one of the three major Mexican muralists (alongside José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros). Together, these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...Introduction - Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes and yet all of the 4700 or so species have some characteristics in common. Indeed, it's the existence of these common features that justifies the inclusion of all such diverse types within the single taxonomic group (or class) called the Mammalia. This is the first in a series of units about studying...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs