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Investigating Psychology Interactive
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating Psychology Interactive

...web browser. Try a free alternative browser like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. What are we missing? It is our hope that the Investigating Psychology resource will continue to grow over the years, so if there is a person, context, perspective or method that you feel should be included, please email us with a description and the reasons for its inclusion. Thank you....
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 1: Understanding social care and social work: roles and services: Introduction - [A social care professional, holding a notepad and pen, sits on a sofa beside a mother and her two children.] This first session is about understanding social care and social work:...
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...resources; Open licences; Open courses or MOOCs; Pedagogy for open education; Literacies and technology for openness. A word or two about studying an open course To get the most from this course we recommend you enrol. While this course is unsupported, we hope that you may find support from your peers via Twitter and blogs. The course is structured around activities that...
Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
How are drones keeping track of songbirds?
Nature & Environment

How are drones keeping track of songbirds?

...human observers introduce the element of human bias. The use of audio recordings made by UAVs has the potential to combat both of these challenges, as hard-to-reach sites can be flown over and multiple people can analyze the resulting recordings. Andrew Wilson of Gettysburg College and his colleagues tested the feasibility of combining bioacoustic monitoring and UAVs to...
Why do we feast on so much chocolate at Easter?
History & The Arts

Why do we feast on so much chocolate at Easter?

...humanity. Intriguingly, twin deities descended into an underworld, survived unpleasant dismemberment and returned to life empowered to create humans. You can follow their journey in the Popul Vuh or “Book of Community” (copied in the sixteenth century by a Dominican Friar). Chocolate was made into a frothy and stimulating drink enjoyed by people across Central...
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...human diet. To sustain a healthy human diet, it is not just the quantity of food that is important, but adequate and appropriate nutrition is also essential. For over 800 million people in the world, access to sufficient and nutritious food is a serious problem (FAO et al., 2017). Even though the policies on food focus on feeding 9 billion people by 2050, in reality food...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Methods in Motion: A view from a train
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: A view from a train

...human existence people have taken it for granted that we know when we are in motion and when we are standing still. Actually, making this simple distinction is remarkably troublesome. Galileo worked out that when we are standing on solid ground it might feel like we are standing still, but in fact we are zooming through space in an orbit around the sun. Being in motion,...
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless

...human rights and social relations in the country. However, recent events such as the dismantling of democracy in Hong Kong, the persistent persecution of Uighur Muslims, and the troubling case of tennis player, Peng Shuai, have illustrated that this has been far from the case. Alongside the hosting of the 2022 Football World Cup in Qatar, which also has a questionable...