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Health, Sports & Psychology
Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Money has had a huge impact on football in the previous 50 years. Simon Rea investigates the key changes over this period to our national game.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care
Dr Caroline Heaney is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Fitness at The Open University. She discusses the advances made in sports medicine and what the future holds.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
A decade ago, the possibility of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism hit the media. Fear of the vaccine spread rapidly and, despite an almost unanimous consensus that the claim was unfounded, still persists today. In this free course, The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears, we'll examine why this controversy took on such a life of ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Exercising at 50
Are you close to your 50th birthday? Simon Penn explores the benefits of exercise on health, energy levels, mood and overall quality of life.
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Education & Development
The family at the centre of early learning
This free course, The family at the centre of early learning, focuses on the positive learning relationships that can exist in any family and how ordinary, everyday domestic activities can sustain learning. You will consider how the traditions and cultural practices of the community to which the family belongs filters through to the child’s ...
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Money & Business
Technology, innovation and management
Develop a critical understanding of technological innovation and management. This free course, Technology, innovation and management, will provide you with an overview and introduction to a range of related concepts, ideas and debates. It adopts a broad definition of innovation and subscribes to the view that a fundamental feature of any ...
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Science, Maths & Technology
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
This free course, Technological innovation: a resource-based view, aims to provide you with an overview and introduction to a range of related concepts, ideas and debates which enable you to develop a critical understanding of capabilities in relation to technological innovation. It will enable you to develop a critical understanding of the ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Introducing healthcare improvement
This free course, Introducing healthcare improvement, explores quality improvement in healthcare settings. It begins by defining healthcare quality and describing the meaning of quality improvement in healthcare. You will also learn about the different dimensions of quality and the broad aims of healthcare improvement. The course will help you ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Why is childbirth a medical procedure?
Sarah Earle examines the developing degree of medical intervention in birth
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done
Following the recent deaths surrounding participants on the Jeremy Kyle Show and Love Island, Dr John Oates explores the pyschological harm associated with the media spotlight.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Systems modelling
Maps and plans, architects and engineers, drawings, graphs and tables: all are models we use in everyday life. This free course, Systems modelling, will introduce you to the modelling process, enabling you to recognise that systems models may be used in different ways as part of a process for: improving understanding of a situation; identifying ...
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Money & Business
Supply chain sustainability
To survive in today’s competitive environment, organisations need not only have an efficient and effective supply chain for the context in which they operate, they also have to consider issues of sustainability in their supply chain strategies. These issues are a consideration beyond those of environmental sustainability and also encompass ...