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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...everyday thing, not to have to go to a special programme or a special presenter to learn about it. So it’s about getting these in magazine programmes or ordinary observational documentaries, as I say, not to talk about the environment as some global thing that is not connected with your life, but to talk about things that matter to you. I mean recycling is something...
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Video 30 mins
Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...everyday thing, not to have to go to a special programme or a special presenter to learn about it. So it’s about getting these in magazine programmes or ordinary observational documentaries, as I say, not to talk about the environment as some global thing that is not connected with your life, but to talk about things that matter to you. I mean recycling is something...
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Video 10 mins
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...everyday lives and not think about it. [Newspaper headlines about climate change] Additionally, there are sociocultural defences which help to shield us from the impact of these facts. Have you noticed how difficult it is talk about the climate crisis in social situations? What we notice, pay attention to, and speak about in different contexts is socially constructed...
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Article 5 mins
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...English Dictionary (OED) is ‘characterized by or pertaining to the preservation or exploitation of local and national features of historical, cultural, or scenic interest, esp. as tourist attractions’, but there are several other meanings of the word, including ‘inheritance’ and ‘lineage’...What is heritage?: 2 Explaining heritage - This course begins with two...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...Everyday acts of survival, the preservation of cultural identity, and the rise of political anticolonialism created a complicated spectrum of resistance to imperial rule. Empires came to complex and - in some cases - unfinished endings. Diplomacy, political and economic manoeuvring, and violent conflict were all key components for the varied endings of empires. But how...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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