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The Medieval Book of Hours: Art and Devotion in the Later Middle Ages
Cost $90 · . Course Length: 12 hours estimated
In Medieval Europe the Book of Hours, so called because its core component consists of the Hours of the Virgin, became the prayer book of choice for worshippers prosperous enough to commission or purchase such a book. Although its contents were of monastic origin,...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Jeffrey F. Hamburger
The History of the Book in 17th and 18th Century Europe
Cost $50 · . Course Length: 1 hours estimated
This module of The Book
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Robert Darnton
Book Sleuthing: The Nineteenth Century
Cost $70 · . Course Length: 4 hours estimated
Do you love printed paper and wonder how much longer it will survive in the age of ebooks? Are you curious about how the mass-produced modern book emerged in the first place? Come behind the scenes in Harvard’s libraries to explore the look, feel and even smell of...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Leah Price
Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript
Cost $90 · . Course Length: 24 hours estimated
As books “go digital,” we can appreciate what is gained in terms of convenience, accessibility and interconnectedness. However, we should also consider what is lost as texts transition to a digital sphere. This module of The Book
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Red Book of Sales Answers (getAbstract Summary)
Cost $29 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
Sales expert Jeffrey Gitomer isn’t reinventing the sales wheel; he’s just showing you how it turns. Whether you’ve been in sales for five weeks or five years, you know which questions you want answered. How do I make a cold call? When do I ask for the sale? How do...
Offered through LinkedIn Learning | Taught by getAbstract
Prepare to Run a Code Club
Cost $44 · . Course Length: 6 hours estimated
Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is ideal for volunteers, parents, and educators who are keen to join the Code Club network to...
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by Raspberry Pi Foundation | Taught by Carrie Anne Philbin, Maria Quevedo, Rik Cross and others
Shakespeare: Print and Performance
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 8 hours estimated
Why do we continue to read and perform Shakespeare’s works around the world today? How were his plays performed and printed 400 years ago, and how has our conception of Shakespeare changed over the centuries? King’s College London has partnered with Shakespeare’s...
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by Shakespeare's Globe, British Library, King's College London | Taught by Lindsey Fulker, Gordon McMullan, Sarah Lewis and others
Scrolls in the Age of the Book
Cost $70 · . Course Length: 18 hours estimated
This course is an introduction to the making and use of scrolls in the European Middle Ages. The codex, with its portability and instant access to any place in the text, became the dominant container for writing after the 4th century BCE, but scrolls continued to...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Thomas Forrest Kelly, Timothy M. Baker
Print and Manuscript in Western Europe, Asia and the Middle East (1450-1650)
Cost $70 · . Course Length: 4 hours estimated
Printing, or the capacity to reproduce text and image mechanically, has rightly been hailed as a technology with far-reaching impact. But the technology takes more than one form and originated in more than one historical context. In this module of The Book
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Ann M. Blair, Lianbin Dai, Meredith Quinn
American Capitalism: A History
. Course Length: 16 hours estimated
Perhaps no story is as essential to get right as the history of capitalism. Nearly all of our theories about promoting progress come from how we interpret the economic changes of the last 500 years. This past decade’s crises continue to remind us just how much...
Offered through edX | and created by Cornell University, CornellX | Taught by Edward E. Baptist, Louis Hyman
International Business Essentials
A Specialization from Coursera. Contains 6 courses · . Course Total length: 143 hours estimated
This specialisation from the University of London is designed to help you develop and build the essential business, academic, and cultural skills necessary to succeed in further study and in international business. If completed successfully, you may be able to...
Offered through Coursera | and created by University of London | Taught by David James, Dr Alan Parkinson, George Kapetanios and others
Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 2: Introduction to the Transitional Gothic Script
Cost $70 · . Course Length: 7 hours estimated
Thousands upon thousands of manuscripts written in Latin and other languages remain from the 12th century, when Western Europe saw an unprecedented increase in manuscript production. Of these manuscripts from the middle ages, only a small percentage have been...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Books in the Medieval Liturgy
Cost $70 · . Course Length: 4 hours estimated
When we think of liturgy today, we imagine short, formal, congregational events happening periodically within the confines of churches. Medieval liturgy, however, took up many hours of every day, filled the city's largest meeting halls, and even spilled onto the...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 1: Reading the Late Medieval Marseille Archive
Cost $70 · . Course Length: 4 hours estimated
Medieval Europe has preserved enormous quantities of books and documents—many millions of pages, in fact—written in Latin and other languages. However, only a tiny percentage of these texts have been edited and published. To gain access to the rest, you need to...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Daniel Lord Smail
Android Fundamentals: Common Actions Using Intents
Cost $35 · . Course Length: 1 hours estimated
Intents are an essential tool used by the Android framework, but there are many ways to use them besides starting Activities or Services within your application. You can also use them to communicate with other applications via Common Intents - for example, when...
Offered through Pluralsight | Taught by Miguel Beltran
Selling with Stories, Part 2: Stories Great Sales People Tell
Cost $29 · . Course Length: 1 hours estimated
Stories connect people. Telling a compelling and authentic story can solidify the relationship with your potential customer and win the sale. In this course, you can learn how to leverage the power of storytelling throughout the sales process. Paul Smith—the...
Offered through LinkedIn Learning | Taught by Paul A. Smith
PredictionX: John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854
PredictionXRated 5.0★ stars based on | 2 ratings · . . Course Length: 4 hours estimated
In 1854, a cholera epidemic swept through the London neighborhood of Soho. In the course of about three weeks, over 600 people died. This incident was, tragically, not unusual in London or the rest of the 19th century world as a whole. The scourge of cholera...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Alyssa Goodman
Nanophotonic Modeling
Nanoscience and TechnologyCost $750 · . Course Length: 45 hours estimated
This course is an introduction to photonic materials and devices structured on the wavelength scale. Generally, these systems will be characterized as having critical dimensions at the nanometer scale. These can include nanophotonic, plasmonic, and metamaterials...
Offered through edX | and created by Purdue University, PurdueX | Taught by Peter Bermel, Haejun Chung, Yubo Sun
Steps in Japanese for Beginners1 Part3
Steps in Japanese for BeginnersCost $109 · . Course Length: 25 hours estimated
The exchange student Andy is asked to join the university yosokoi dance club. And he decides to join. Through interaction with his yosokoi club mates and his Japanese class teacher, he describes his experiences and we learn more about Andy’s character and how he...
Offered through edX | and created by WasedaX, Waseda University | Taught by Naoko Kinoshita, Kaori Sano, Yukiyo HAMAKAWA
Medicines Adherence: Understanding and Changing Patient Behaviour
Cost $94 · . Course Length: 6 hours estimated
This course has been designed by psychologists and clinicians at King’s College London for people interested in medicines adherence. Using evidenced-and theory-based techniques, you will deepen your awareness and understanding of current practical and theoretical...
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by King's College London | Taught by Vivian Auyeung, John Weinman, Susan Carroll and others