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Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...learn French, so if you have decided that now is the time for you to learn another language, why not make it ‘le français’?...When you hear people speaking French, do you wish you could join the conversation? Or do you have a passion for French culture and want to immerse yourself in it? Perhaps you have an opportunity to work in a French-speaking country? There are...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Andante: beginners' Italian
Languages

Andante: beginners' Italian

...learn the basics in Italian? The audio tracks in this collection are devised for learning simple Italian, including expressions for greetings, ordering food and drinks, booking into a hotel and talking about a recent holiday. The tracks contain sample recordings with suggestions for how to pronounce Italian sounds, along with some activities to help improve your listening...
How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...learning, to motivate, to provide a means of demonstrating professional development and to allow learners to showcase their unique strengths and interests. But what does it mean to you, the badge earner, to have a digital badge these days? OpenLearn's impact The OpenLearn website was launched in 2006 to be a platform for free learning resources in support of the Open...
Take the next step with an Open University short course
Education & Development

Take the next step with an Open University short course

...learning? Whether you’ve taken one or two OpenLearn courses or delved into many more, you may be thinking about the next step in your learning journey. Whatever your starting point or background, our range of short courses and microcredentials can help you level up your skills, propel your career and explore your personal passion...Find out more about The Open...
What is OpenLearn Ireland?
OpenLearn Ireland

What is OpenLearn Ireland?

...learning content from The Open University for all who are interested in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the culture, developments and events on the island...The OpenLearn Ireland hub brings together a collection of free educational resources relevant to Ireland and Northern Ireland. The resources within this hub cover a wide range of subject areas, including language,...
AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture
Science, Maths & Technology

AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture

...learns from past mistakes and data trends. In Machine learning (ML), a centralised model learns to perform by training on a single dataset. So, each record, data distribution, and raw data is accessible to the model. Contrary to this setup, federated learning (FL) provides a way to distribute the learning process of AI systems across multiple devices, making it ......
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...fictional world in which there were no political structures or nation-states. What kind of politics would follow from it? While, like Thomas Hobbes, an earlier English philosopher, had suggested a vicious ‘war of all against all’, Locke instead set out some of the earliest arguments for universal human rights. ‘The State of Nature has a Law of Nature to govern it,...
About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
Languages

About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures

...learn languages and engage with cultures for learners from all over the globe and from all walks of life. We are committed to increasing public awareness of the strategic importance of meaningful and effective communication between individuals and groups and are confident that the short courses offered by the centre will make a valuable and much-needed contribution to...