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Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...become familiar with the deeper levels of harmony in Mozart's piano sonatas...This free course, Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground, continues our examination of 'voice-leading' or 'Schenkerian' analysis, perhaps the most widely used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this course, this method is explained through the analysis of piano...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?

...becoming more and more susceptible to commercial pressures and parents and coaches often encouraging children to participate in intensive training and highly competitive events in their specialised sport at a young age. There are various definitions for early specialisation however typically it involves continual year-round training in a single sport between the ages of 6...
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Fire and Ice
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire and Ice

...student Anne Forbes as they explore exciting lava formations that have never been reported before... Fire and Ice How are volcanoes created? On a field trip to Iceland, Dr Dave McGarvie visits a range of volcanoes. They include Askja, a spectacular and active volcano in the remote interior of the country - whose evolution he is studying with scientists from Iceland and...
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Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...student ideas. Students become so much more invested and engaged when they're working on their own unique, creative ideas. An example of this is when I taught a non-major's introduction to programming course. And there are two student project examples up on the slides. The first was a Jeopardy game. And I still use this in my classes today as a great and fun way to review...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...become instrumental. Protests captured on camera can spark public debate and help trigger political change – as was the case with the Arab Spring...One image of a Syrian child refugee, Alan Kurdi, lying drowned on a Greek beach arguably changed the European migration debate in 2015. Transcript Smartphone cameras have democratised photography. Wherever there are...
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Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...students to become learners of English or people who can decipher the different varieties that are – that they are engaging with and accommodate those varieties, negotiate those varieties to outsiders so that we are not now thinking of variety X, variety Y etc. But developing in students a language awareness so that they know how varieties work or develop a social...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Future Technologies: Designing with vision
Science, Maths & Technology

Future Technologies: Designing with vision

...OU and the University of Leeds is aimed at stimulating and generating ideas for designers, the result could have a global effect on the industries of the future... Future Design Tools This video reveals research into some of the very latest design tools. It shows how eye tracking technology can be combined with shape generation software to create a radically new type of...
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Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless

...becoming the first city to host both the summer and winter versions of the Olympic Games. The Games will run until 20th February and there will be 109 events in 15 disciplines covering 7 sports. These Winter Olympics are not without controversary. When the games were awarded to Beijing the former IOC President Jacques Rogge stated that staging the winter Games in China...
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