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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...researched and carefully developed it is important to ask: How can the framework above bring about change? The framework has a number of interconnected elements that focus on supporting health care staff, helping them become confident, adopting an individual approach to children and families, and empowering parents to become more actively involved in their child’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...research and support. The majority of references are from online blogposts and articles. While there are many excellent books on this topic, the most up-to-date information is often to be found on the websites of relevant organisations and in blogs by creative entrepreneurs and industry leaders. The amount of online information available can be overwhelming, so this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...research on the relationships we form with fictional characters...This free course explores psychological theory and research on the relationships we form with fictional characters. Throughout the course you will hear from leading crime writers – Lin Anderson, Gordon Brown, Val McDermid, Sir Ian Rankin and Craig Robertson – who will talk about how they create and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...research has revealed the stereotype view of the scientist as a white male Einstein lookalike (Reiss, 2002). Different images of scientists are present in the media today, but has this changed the images that children and young people have of science and scientists? Activity 3 Images of science Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Ask two or three children or teenagers who you...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...researched burnout extensively. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development. Once you are signed in,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
How many different types of smile are there?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How many different types of smile are there?

...researcher into smiles over the past 30 years has been Paul Ekman at the University of California. His 1978 Facial Action Coding System, written with Wallace V Friesen, seeks to create an atlas of nearly all possible human expressions. Ekman says, in his book Telling Lies, that their technique for measuring the face can distinguish over 50 different smiles. Confused?...
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Article 5 mins
Verbal fluency
Health, Sports & Psychology

Verbal fluency

...research that shows that different parts of the brain are involved in these two different tasks. Age is clearly a significant factor that affects performance; younger children tend to be less fluent than older children and adults. This has a lot to do with how many words are in a person’s vocabulary. One important aspect of verbal fluency is having a large vocabulary of...
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Article 5 mins
Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...research organisation MORI interviewed 1,955 adults across the UK. Of the 949 of these who said they would be certain to vote if there were an election the next day, 39% said they would vote Conservative, 35% Labour, 19% Liberal Democrat, and the rest for other parties or candidates. These numbers are statistics in the plural sense; they are facts about what the...
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Article 5 mins