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Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...de mer. And it was absolutely beautiful overlooking the sea in Cascais. We had a discussion, and we said, Sam, do you want to keep doing triathlons, or would you prefer to get another job? And his answer was, definitely triathlons, Dad. And then we made another decision. Is this a bucket list, or can he become a professional? Can he become an elite triathlete? And then I...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...mode to help you with writing tasks, crafting bulletin points, creating LinkedIn posts, summarising information, or even generating reports. Now, let’s look at another feature. Copilot can summarise and translate PDFs within Edge. For example, let’s take a closer look at the AI Trainer Toolkit Guide: You can follow along by visiting aka.ms/AITrainerToolkit. With the...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...de Groot, R. S. and Opdam, P. (2014) ‘Ecosystem services as a contested concept: a synthesis of critique and counter-arguments’, Conservation Letters, 17 February [Online]. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12091 (Accessed 17 July 2014). Senge, P. M., Smith, B., Kruschwitz, N., Laur, J. and Schley, S. (2008) The Necessary Revolution, New York, NY, Doubleday....
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...de-stigmatise the menopause, raise awareness of its impact and remove the embarrassment often experienced when people talk about it (Newson, 2019)...Session 1: What are we are talking about?: 5 Factors affecting the severity of the menopause - On average the menopause starts aged 51; however, the perimenopause that is described as ‘the change before the change’,...
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...modes-- cold water immersions, compression garments, various nutritional antioxidant-type strategies, neuromuscular electrical simulations. There are lots of different things out there. Essentially what they’re all trying to do is influence or modulate the stress response to exercise. So things like inflammation, oxidative stress, and muscle damage-- by trying to...
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades (Human Development Opportunities Programme, referred to as Oportunidades) is an anti-poverty initiative aimed at indigenous women in a remote mountain area in northern Mexico. Previous evaluations confirmed that indigenous people were participating effectively but it was unclear that the project was succeeding in its objectives of...
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...modes of thought, which humans have evolved to survive on Earth, allow us to work out so much about remote objects we can’t see. It’s almost as though the Universe is there specifically for us to exercise our ingenuity and to see how far it takes us. Now, to get very far in astronomy, or any other science, you need to know some maths. And this week is probably the...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...de force, watch this Waltz Around Saturn video produced by Fabio Di Donato who edited together highlights from the Cassini mission during its orbital tour of Saturn. Turn your sound on, because we think that fitting the pictures to this music was a work of genius. [This is an image taken from the Waltz around Saturn video.] Figure 27 Highlights from the Cassini mission...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs