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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...English has emerged as the de facto lingua franca of business and places like Silicon Valley are the epicentre of innovation in their field, it is easy to forget that much creativity continues to happen in diverse cultural environments. In the modern, globalised age it is tempting to focus solely on the common features different organisations or perhaps even different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...English critics Roger Fry (1866–1934) and Clive Bell (1881–1964), the critic Clement Greenberg (1909–94) and the New York Museum of Modern Art’s director Alfred H. Barr (1902–81). For a period this view largely became the common sense of modern art (O’Brian, 1986–95, 4 vols; Barr, 1974 [1936]). This version of modernism is itself complex. The argument...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...English subtitles. (All in French with subtitles) It’s hard to talk about a job that you can’t stand anymore. I can assure you. It gets really cold, really damp. The boxes just get heavier to carry. The pace is unbearable. We work because we need food on our plates to survive So I think this kind of work should be exposed to the world Because it’s really no joke...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...English. For example, in the text you have just read, supermercato means ‘supermarket’, generosi means ‘generous’ and aneddoto means ‘anecdote’. Many European languages have words with common origins which are similar in spelling and meaning. You can't rely on these similar-looking words always meaning the same in both language, though. Occasionally you may be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...english/ powder.html Figure 16: © Aleph Objects - Makers of LulzBot 3D Printers This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike Licence http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 4.0/ Figure 17: Adapted from: Kauful V., Hernandex W & A., ( 2012 ), 'A Review of Additive Manufacturing', ISRN Mechanical Engineering Figure 18: Aleph...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...English is not your first language. It is well known that time constraints are a barrier in distance learning, and you may well have to be satisfied with doing what is good enough, whatever your circumstances. Your aim should not be to submit the ‘perfect’ assignment (even if there were such a thing). Look again at the discussion of the purpose of an essay in Activity...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Cultures
Languages

Cultures

...English, the main course itself is entirely in French. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in French...Cultures: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the progression in the comparison understand the infinitive as subject of a sentence understand the vocabulary of song understand the tradition of oral...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...English geologist and surveyor, produced the first geological map of an area in 1799, based on his time working as a canal surveyor (the first geological map of a nation had to wait until 1815 for publication). He was able to map the rocks by travelling the country and looking at what rocks were where. Today, with satellite and aerial photography, geological mapping uses...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs