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Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...analysis had advanced just enough to contemplate an effort to hunt down the defective Doberman gene. *** I can never reconstruct the combination of factors that led to the onset of my own narcolepsy, but the stage was set at the moment of my conception in 1972, at around the time of Monique’s birth in Saskatchewan. My one-cell self inherited a particular version of a...
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Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...data was collected and published by COMA, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (1991). This committee has now been disbanded, but its publications still represent a valid source of information about diet. When this course was published (2004), the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) advised the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...analysis turned out to be a ‘cut and paste job’ designed to influence MPs to vote for military action in Iraq (White, MacAskill and Norton-Taylor, 2003). There may be different standards and expectations around copying material depending on what you are doing, what material you are using, how you are using the material, what conditions exist around the use of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...analysis of coach developers: applications to the FA Youth Coach Educator role’, in Allison, W., Abraham, A. and Cale, A. (eds) Advances in Coach Education and Development: From Research to Practice, London, Routledge. Egan, G. (1998) The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management Approach to Helping, London, International Thomson Publishing Europe. International Coach...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...analysis of the meanings of ‘national identity’: Nations tend to be imagined as racially and ethnically homogeneous … If the nation is imagined as being made up of people said to be of the same colour and said to have the same ethnic origins, then all those who are defined as not meeting these two criteria can be constructed as being ‘outside’ the nation, as not...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...data to an economist. They provide the raw material with which you can work. Some people seem to have a natural talent for systems thinking, just as some have a natural talent for playing the piano. But most people find it rather awkward and difficult at first. In a way, that is an encouraging sign; it shows that you are genuinely coming to grips with something...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...data, MOOCs, OERs, open source or open scholarship – the openness battle has largely been won.’ Later that year, he argued that ‘it’s a mistake to talk about openness as if it’s one thing’...An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER): 3 Exploring OER - Many educational institutions worldwide are offering OER. This is a way to widen access to...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...analysis. For the moment, that’s not what is emerging. Psychopathy has a very precise definition. A psychopath would not have reacted at all like the killer in Nice: a psychopath doesn’t take, doesn’t kill, doesn’t explode. FRANCE 24: The Syrian refugee who blew himself up on Sunday in Ansbach, Germany had spent time in a psychiatric hospital. Are people who are...
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