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Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...de Beurs, E. (2020) ‘Workplace stress, presenteeism, absenteeism and resilience among university staff and students in the COVID-19 lockdown’. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11. Available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33329135/ (Accessed: 5 January 2025). Von der Embse, N., Jester, D., Roy, D. and Post, J. (2018) ‘Test anxiety effects, predictors, and correlates: A...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...De Bruyckere et al. (2015) present evidence that PBL is appropriate when applying existing knowledge to new problems; it is not an effective approach for acquiring new knowledge. Having considered these aspects of PBL, you will now look at two examples where this approach to teaching might be used...Session 5: Developing your teaching repertoire and skills: 2.1 When would...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...class, the beginning of an odd set of behaviour changes. “For months we had been having problems with her acting odd, belligerent, slurring and stumbling… I would constantly be telling people, I don’t know where she went. Whoever this is, this isn’t Violet.” After six months of investigation, an MRI scan found the tumour. The diagnosis was given at the Seattle...
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Article 5 mins
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...class. For personality traits, you can use the qualities from Activity 2, or you can provide a list of your own. Part 3 If you have done work on different styles of popular music, for example Latin American, rock'n'roll or blues, you could link it into this activity. Ask pupils to develop a chosen motif in different popular styles to reflect particular influences...Using...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...class, or private study the level you want to study – short course, GCSE, A Level, university course the cost of the course the location of the course and how far you are willing to travel. Bearing these considerations in mind, have a look on the internet for language courses that may be interest to you, taking note of their cost and location. Look at local or national...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...LA governor, headteacher as a governor, community governor, additional community governor, representative governor, foundation governor, associate pupil governor, partnership governor or sponsor governor. Having reflected on the questions take a few moments and make a note of your responses to each question in the text box below. You can download the notes you make by...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Get started with Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This free course was first published in July 2019. It was written and produced by: Authors and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...class) called the Mammalia. Mammals evolved on land, but a number of species have become adapted to spending part or all of their lives in water and it is these mammals that you are going to concentrate on. In this free course, Aquatic mammals, you are going to meet some aquatic mammals, find out how we can study them, consider their evolutionary history and read about...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs