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Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...Introduction - This free course will provide an introduction to some of the main ways in which music is transmitted. There are three case studies, each of which focuses on one form of musical media during a specific historical period in a particular geographical location. You will begin by looking at a copyist of music manuscripts in the sixteenth-century Low Countries;...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...Introduction - This course provides an introduction to data and processes in software, and provides a basis that enables these fundamental ideas to be developed in a clear and precise way. It has two main aims. The first is to illustrate how we can describe ways in which data may be structured and processed. The second is to introduce you to some vocabulary and concepts...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...Introduction - We all have constant daily experience of fluids, from breathing air to taking showers and checking weather forecasts, which means that we all have a great deal of intuitive knowledge about how they behave; this course will build on that knowledge. The Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are two of the most important fluids for engineers, and a working knowledge...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...Introduction - Cinematography first became something the public could enjoy at a screening in Paris in 1895, at the Salon Indien of the Grand Café, Boulevard des Capucines. Since then, cinema has become a crucial part of French culture. In this free course, Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema, you will learn about the art, the industry and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...Introduction - This course is designed to develop the analytical skills you need for a more in-depth study of literary texts. You will learn about rhythm, alliteration, rhyme, poetic inversion, voice and line lengths and endings. You will examine poems that do not rhyme and learn how to compare and contrast poetry. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...Introduction - In this course we examine one factor that very often seems to be found skulking around close to problems and solutions: temperature. Almost whatever we do, wherever we are, temperature changes. Stay in the same spot and you'll find daytime and night-time temperatures can be markedly different. You may even find significant changes in temperature during the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...Introduction - Applied mathematics is a key skill for practicing engineers and mathematical modelling is an ever-increasing field within engineering. . In Section 1 you will explore how vectors are used to model force and motion, and consider how problems involving vectors can be solved using geometry and trigonometry. In Section 2 you explore how to work with vectors...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...managing editor Helena Vieira during the Mobile Money and Financial Development Conference at LSE. Could you tell me briefly about your digital strategy? Ecobank is a pan-African bank. We’re in 33 markets in middle Africa. The aim of the bank has always been to foster inter-regional trade, inter-regional business. But with the change in digital banking coming in now,...
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Article 10 mins