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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...systems approach to obesity prevention in Northern Ireland was published in 2023. The report comes as the Department of Health prepares to draft a new obesity prevention strategy in 2024 to replace its predecessor, ‘A Fitter Future for All 2012-22’. We are unique However, everyone’s relationship with food is a very personal one and not one that should be compared to...
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Article 5 mins
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...system, but the messages about the principles of effective mentoring and coaching and the important role mentors have as teacher-educators within the school-based context remain the same across education systems. The course will aid your understanding of the role of a mentor supporting a beginner-teacher as they progress along a continuum of familiarisation with and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...think you have? Locus of control is a term coined by Julian Rotter in the 1960s as part of his social learning theory. It refers to the belief in how much control people think they have over our own lives. You can complete a test here to see if you have an internal or external locus of control: Am I in control? As an individual develops and gains experience, they learn to...
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Article 10 mins
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...think that if you have an offender then it's necessary to work with them, to help them to change whatever psychological deficit it is that brought them there in the first place." Given Paul's high profile it seems unbelievable that he hasn't spent his entire life working in this field, yet he points out that "I came to psychology probably later than most people start...
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Article 10 mins
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...think it's important that the internet is made more visible...[Visualisation of the Routing Paths of the Internet] What do you think of when you think about the internet? Do you think about some of the everyday ways in which you might use it: checking email, internet banking, an online supermarket order, ‘skyping’ friends? Or perhaps you think about the 'net' itself,...
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Article 10 mins
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...think about it, the system depends on outgoing and incoming blood flowing in opposite directions, which is why it is called a countercurrent heat exchanger. (If the two blood flows were in the same direction, there would cease to be any heat transfer once the blood temperatures had become identical.) The system is shown to best effect in the flippers (and tails) of diving...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay in control and hide the fear: The psychology of skydivers and climbers

...think you have to be tremendously brave to do that but they were quite critical of that absence of any skills or planning. Laurie Taylor: Now for this paper, the one you were doing this work on – skydiving – I mean you went parachuting yourself, just tell me a little bit about either your own fears and concerns about that or the feeling of jumping out of a plane?...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...thinks about scores differently. They look at them differently, think about them differently, and work with them in different ways. CATHERINE Musical scores might seem a bit confusing and mysterious, and you might think that it takes years of training to be able to decipher all the dots and lines. It's certainly true that scores do contain a lot of the information. But...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs