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Teaching the plays of Shakespeare with a sense of freshness and wonder

Jonathan Bate, lead academic on the ‘Shakespeare and His world’ MOOC, discusses how the British Museum’s 2012 Shakespeare Staging the World exhibition influenced the University of Warwick’s free online course. …

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The far reaching impact of Parkinson’s disease

Alison Cooper, lead educator of the free online course, ‘Good brain, bad brain: Parkinson’s disease’ by the University of Birmingham discusses the impact of Parkinson’s on both patients and carers. …

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Xiao’s story can help inspire other learners whose first language is not English

The MOOC team from the University of Reading talks about the academic journey of one of their former international students, Xiao, and how studying English has helped him develop writing …

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Excitement builds ahead of Higgs boson MOOC

Prof Luigi Del Debbio, from the University of Edinburgh, discusses Peter Higgs, CERN, and the future of particle physics. It’s been an incredible few months for my colleagues and I …

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Can you position major organs on a diagram of the human body? What’s your gut reaction?

Lead educator from the University of Leeds, asks students about the inner workings of the human body and unveils what you can learn by taking the free online course, ‘Exploring …

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Sixth form students visit University of Reading after taking a course on FutureLearn

Following the free online course, ‘Begin programming: build your first mobile game’ last month, a group of sixth form students from Ousedale School were invited to the University of Reading …

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What lurks in the depths of our oceans?

Professor Rachel Mills, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences at University of Southampton and a contributing educator, talks about the incredible research covered in this free …

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Facing the new computing curriculum with confidence

Helena Gillespie, the lead educator of the University of East Anglia’s ‘Teaching Computing’ free online course, explains how working with a team including Computing at School (CAS), classroom teachers and …

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The future of the brain

Lead educator for the University of Birmingham’s free online course ‘Good brain, bad brain: basics’, Alison Cooper, discusses human fascination with the brain and what you can learn in this …

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Language is big news

Professor Tony McEnery, the lead educator of the free online course ‘Corpus linguistics: method, analysis, interpretation’ by Lancaster University, talks about the uses and abuses of language. Language is a …

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Cancer research: continuous changes and discoveries

Dr Momna Hejmadi, lead educator of the University of Bath’s free online course ‘Inside cancer: how genes influence cancer development’ talks about the impact cancer has on the whole human …

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Shakespeare’s Hamlet – still captivating audiences around the world

Professor Michael Dobson, the Director of the Shakespeare Institute, from the University of Birmingham talks about Shakespeare’s Hamlet and discusses why this play is loved by audiences across the world. …

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Climate change in the news

Professor Tim Lenton of the University of Exeter talks about the media’s coverage of climate change and asks some of the challenging questions we face, ahead of the free online course, “Climate …

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The science behind forensic science

Professor Niamh Nic Daeid, from the Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, talks about the free online course “Introduction to Forensic Science,” which begins again …

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Not just another course about sustainability!

Dr Sarah Speight, from The University of Nottingham, talks about the free online course ‘Sustainability, Society and You’ which starts on FutureLearn.com on 6 January. If you ask six …

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Teaching the plays of Shakespeare with a sense of freshness and wonder

The far reaching impact of Parkinson’s disease

Xiao’s story can help inspire other learners whose first language is not English

Excitement builds ahead of Higgs boson MOOC

Can you position major organs on a diagram of the human body? What’s your gut reaction?

Sixth form students visit University of Reading after taking a course on FutureLearn

What lurks in the depths of our oceans?

Facing the new computing curriculum with confidence

The future of the brain

Language is big news

Cancer research: continuous changes and discoveries

Shakespeare’s Hamlet – still captivating audiences around the world

Climate change in the news

The science behind forensic science

Not just another course about sustainability!

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