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Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...works of art...In this free course, Napoleonic paintings, we will examine a range of Napoleonic imagery by David, Gros and a number of other artists, beginning with comparatively simple single-figure portraits and moving on to elaborate narrative compositions, such as Jaffa and Eylau. In so doing, we will have three main aims: to develop your skills of visual analysis; to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...work? Who were the attackers? What lessons can be learnt? This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course TM255 Communication and information technologies...Learning from major cyber security incidents: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of the key concepts, issues and technologies...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...work was concentrated into a period of 15 years at most. Goethe for many years enjoyed esteem and status beyond that of any literary figure in Europe. Schubert was, until long after his death, virtually unknown except to a circle of friends and connoisseurs in and around Vienna. The dominant musical figure in Vienna during Schubert's lifetime was Beethoven, who died in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground

...work through this course, you will become familiar with five complete movements of Mozart's piano sonatas, as well as shorter extracts from some of his other sonatas...This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground, introduces 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...work by kick-starting a sluggish biological clock; in doing so, they’re also shedding new light on the underlying pathology of depression, and on the function of sleep more generally. “Sleep deprivation really has opposite effects in healthy people and those with depression,” says Benedetti. If you’re healthy and you don’t sleep, you’ll feel in a bad mood. But...
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Article 15 mins
What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...worked over the years to develop feature-rich applications and enterprise ready systems, that not only compare to, but exceed proprietary options, must feel like pinching themselves. [Door outside in the woods] You can open some things, but it doesn't always mean there's any value to it Long gone are the arguments around viability (is the open source option “enterprise...
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Article 5 mins
The Life of Saint David
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint David

...work on the lives of the saints tells the story of Wales' patron saint...[St David] About the Year 544. ST. DAVID, in Welch Dewid, was son of Xantus, prince of Ceretica, now Cardiganshire. He was brought up in the service of God, and being ordained priest, retired into the Isle of Wight, and embraced an ascetic life, under the direction of Paulinus, a learned and holy...
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Article 10 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...working politics at Stormont, but more a first response to that formal ending of the IRA armed campaign; and “the starting pistol being fired on normalisation”. Those words were spoken to me in a face-to-face meeting with Mervyn Wynne Jones on that Saturday, July 30th 2005. At the time, he was the chief press officer at Army Headquarters in Northern Ireland. As I...
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Article 5 mins