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Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...everyday life goals and actually the care is very much built around what that person's experience is and what that experience that they want-- how they want that experience to be. [TEXT ON SCREEN: So would you say it involves everyone in a care setting?] Absolutely. You have to bring everybody together. Everybody has to work on this. No matter what their role in that care...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...everyday life. It explores a range of digital skills and practices, including digital identity, digital well-being, staying safe and legal, finding and using information and online tools, and dealing with information overload. The importance of developing a critical approach to life online is emphasised throughout, whether consuming or creating information. You'll be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...English (an implicit act of translation takes place her between reading and first written response). Second: both Russian and Norwegian literature –specifically Tolstoy and Ibsen – was read in French translation, and not in English, despite the availability of these works in English translations. Third: half the titles read were fiction, more than all the other genres...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...everyday domestic settings and introduce distinctly new elements to create a twist on the Irish literary tradition. Their work demonstrates the way in which the twentieth century intensified some of the influences of Gothic from the nineteenth century, but also created some of its own. Influences on Irish Gothic Writing in the Twentieth Century Conflict: domestic and...
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Article 45 mins
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...everyday life. We hope that you will enjoy this course, which provides an introduction to the fascinating topic of law. This course assumes that you have some interest in the law. You may be interested because of some direct involvement with the law, for example in buying a house, or your interest may have been sparked by one of the many television programmes based in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...English sentences. AI began to specialise in the 1970s into areas such as expert systems, language analysis, knowledge representation and computer vision. This served to strengthen the backbone of AI theories. In the 1980s, AI began to move at a faster pace. The public became more comfortable with science and technology as the popularity of personal computers rose and...
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Article 15 mins
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...everyday life and the wider world...Does maths feel like a bit of a mystery to you? Are you looking to improve your confidence in using maths in a variety of everyday situations? If so, this free course, Succeed with maths: part 1, is for you. Beginning with the very foundations of maths, this course will start by looking at how numbers are put together, before guiding...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Beginners’ German: Places and people
Languages

Beginners’ German: Places and people

...English, with some additions: ‘a’, ‘o’ and ‘u’ can sometimes be found with two dots over them (called Umlaut). They sound slightly different from ‘a’, ‘o’, and ‘u’ on their own. The letter ‘ß’ represents a double ‘s’ and is pronounced like an ‘s’. At this stage, all the German you need to use is presented in the audio clips. Listen to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs