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British Science Week
Science, Maths & Technology

British Science Week

...working world. The links below explore some debates and questions surrounding the topic. Health Sciences - anxiety and pain Focusing on anxiety, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions in our FREE course 'Understanding anxiety'. Plus, pain - we all understand what pain is, don't we? Or do we? Try one of our FREE courses to learn more!...
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Migration 2018: What's currently happening?
Society, Politics & Law

Migration 2018: What's currently happening?

...health point of view), arrived in Valencia few hours later (around 1100h). The third ship was the Italian naval vessel “Orion” with 250people on board. According to the information provided by the Spanish Ministry of Interior, there were 26 different nationalities on board. The 10 main nationalities were from Sudan, Nigeria, Eritrea, South Sudan, Algeria, Ghana,...
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Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...health and welfare of modern populations...While recognising the shadows cast by two world wars (one concluded and one imminent) over European society during the 1920s and 1930s, this free course, Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period, demonstrates how a number of specific features indicate that the interwar period was a distinctive and important moment of...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...mental models, which are used to help understand how things are and how they work. For the moment, the focus is on the second definition – systems of the mind – created by an individual or many people to help structure problems or think about difficult things. You could also think of a system as interconnecting parts functioning as a whole. A system is changed if you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...Wellbeing References Bakker, A. B. and Leiter, M. B. (2010) Work Engagement: A Handbook of Essential Theory and Research. London: Psychology Press. Besieux, T. (2017) ‘Why I hate feedback: Anchoring effective feedback within organizations’, Business Horizons, 60(4), pp. 435–9, doi: 10.1016/j.bushor.2017.03.001. Shute, V. (2008) ‘Focus on formative feedback’,...
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Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...health, the general environment, buildings and crops. These damage costs are often referred to as external costs (or externalities). The discipline of environmental economics involves determining the level of these external costs and using economic instruments to make organisations and individuals liable for the external costs that they generate. Considering external...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...health and wellbeing. Download the text now. Activity 7 Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes Read only the introductory paragraph, the headings and the topic sentence of each paragraph. Then answer the questions that follow. I recommend printing out this text as you will refer to it again while working through the next few activities. Question 1 Having skim read the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...health, capabilities and performance. The process of analysing data collected from various devices can take a huge amount of time, especially when dealing with high-level athletes that require a large amount of data collection. This process is very labour-intensive and can mostly only be done well at the highest levels of sport where full-time data scientists can be...
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