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Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...introduction to the Chinese language, its scripts and sounds, and how words are formed. You will hear short conversations where people greet each other and introduce themselves, and learn how to count from one to ten. You’ll learn different ways of saying your name and greeting people, as well as give your telephone number. This OpenLearn course is introductory material...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...Introduction - This free course, Discovering music: the blues, will introduce you to a musical tradition with roots in the nineteenth century but is still relevant to making music today. You will learn about how the lyrics of blues songs reflect the social environment in which they were created, and about the musical techniques that underpin the structures of blues songs....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 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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Audio 5 mins
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...Introduction - This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Sociology...The technology of crime control: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: illustrate how CCTV is used for general surveillance give examples of how CCTV can be used for crime control...The technology of crime control: 1 The purpose, efficacy and regulation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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