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What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...course, What is poetry?, is designed to illustrate the techniques behind both the traditional forms of poetry and free verse. You will learn how you can use your own experiences to develop ideas and how to harness your imagination...Have you always wanted to try to write poetry but never quite managed to start? This free course, What is poetry?, is designed to illustrate...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social care in the community
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care in the community

...course, Social care in the community, focuses on one important area of social care, home care for older people...Social care involves the challenge of supporting people who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to function without assistance or supervision. This free course, Social care in the community, focuses on one important area of social care, home care for older...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...course offers useful skills and solutions to help you get back into a career in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM)...Welcome to the free badged course, Returning to STEM. This course is here to help you get back to work in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. The course is intended for anyone who wants to get back into STEM work after...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...course, An introduction to interaction design, explores this topic. You will learn: what interaction design is; the importance of user-centred design - with its goals and principles; how interaction design focuses on the characteristics of the user, their activities and environment; and the core activities and methods of the interaction design process...From apps, phones...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...course...This free course, Children and young people: food and food marketing, examines food as a health issue and addresses children and young people’s agency and their rights. It addresses obesity, food marketing and also food as a way of expressing children’s and young people’s identities (family, class, cultural, generational). Discussing key issues that in...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...course, Empire: power, resistance, legacies, will help you to navigate the complex histories of empires through three key concepts which are central to understanding how empires were established, managed, experienced and dismantled...Empires have existed throughout most of human history. They have spanned the globe. They have influenced the way we are governed, our...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...course concentrates on Sam Selvon's twentieth-century novel, The Lonely Londoners. It considers the depiction of migration in the text as well as Selvon's treatment of memory as a vital part of the migrant's experience...This free course concentrates on Sam Selvon's twentieth-century novel, The Lonely Londoners. It considers the depiction of migration in the text as well...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...German right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) (which of course in no way reflects the views of OpenLearn nor the RETOPEA team) and the second is a video about the Liverpool football star Mo Salah, whose Muslim faith has proved no obstacle to his popularity in his adopted city. Look at these clippings and then spend some time thinking about how you might use...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs