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Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...code for ‘1960s ugly’ as water stains spread, rust leached from steel reinforcing bars, and concrete crumbled. Much of brutalism’s poor reputation today is just a symptom of poor maintenance. Iconic shopping centre [Milton Keynes, Queen's Court in The Centre (central shopping area).] Milton Keynes, Queen's Court in The Shopping Centre Milton Keynes has a central...
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Video 25 mins
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...simple. It's a very simple thing to say, well, let's retrain everybody so they understand data and digital. Well, how do you do that and what do you actually mean by that? Certainly, in a business of our size, there are so many different types of employee. And actually, there are businesses within the business. Our claims department is very different to our IT department....
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...simple variation of it has rhyming words rather than repeating words for the A lines, creating what is known as a rhyming couplet. This pair of lines is followed by a single line that can be used as a refrain. The important thing to remember about this verse structure is its three-line format as it fits the musical structures of the blues. Love, sex and betrayal are...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...simple two-week course of antibiotics and bismuth. ‘I had developed my hypothesis that these bacteria were the cause of peptic ulcers and significant risk to stomach cancer. If I was right then treatment for ulcer disease would be revolutionised. It would be simple, cheap and it would be a cure. ‘It seemed to me that for the sake of patients this research had to be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...simple, however ‘mind reading’ involves a highly sophisticated range of cognitive skills, including the ability to take the spatial, social and emotional perspective of another person, to organise and evaluate contextual cues about what they might be thinking or feeling, and to decode subtle non-verbal behaviours. With no more information than a truncated picture of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...simple questions, they help you to start thinking about your digital persona and how you use social media and networking. In your personal life, you choose what platforms/apps you engage with, what you share and whom you connect with. You’ll have an awareness of whether you are sharing to a private group or publicly to the world. Your confidence interacting online may...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...codes and make particular fun of hypocrisy and pretension. Most of the gags come from social mishaps, which escalate to the point of absurdity. All that human silliness has a social function. It's meant to make us cringe so hard we won't make similar mistakes in the real world. And no matter how anarchic they get, it all resolved happily at the end in that boring, old...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...simple marketing theories to an organisation you’re familiar with. You’ll also explore how to communicate effective messages, and the key role that social media plays in marketing at voluntary organisations. By the end of this week, you should be able to: describe what marketing is describe what happens in the process of human communication using a simple model use...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs