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Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...manageable steps. For some activities you will need access to a printer. Finally, you will learn a range of techniques to produce well organised notes that can be used when writing an assignment. If you decide to go to university, you will have to prepare for exams and research essays. In order to do this, you will need to be able to read the most appropriate sources and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...management in areas where transmission persists. Migrant workers and travellers in affected regions should also be vaccinated to prevent spread of the virus. Countries and areas with strong travel links to affected countries and with a local vector, such as China, should implement outbreak preparedness by improving surveillance and stockpiling emergency vaccinations. Read...
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Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...managing the eligibility process. Professor Burns said: “I was hoping to say that we would have more intellectually disabled athletes in Rio than London, however there are other factors this year which have skewed this, one factor being that Russia’s athletes are excluded and their places are currently being allocated. “However, I am absolutely thrilled with the...
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Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...managing the process. Scotland David Eiser, research fellow in economics, Stirling University The introduction of a tax on sugary drinks, which will raise around £0.5 billion, will be welcomed by the health lobby. It seems likely that Scottish taxpayers may contribute a disproportionately high share of this new tax, given higher consumption of sugary drinks, but the...
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Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...managers by Industry Week magazine found recession-battered stalwarts of major firms low on morale and gloomy about the future. This, concluded the magazine, was very much a winter of discontent. 1985 The BBC had a go at refreshing the cliche, trying to paint a soggy late summer bank holiday as a "summer of discontent" (with Ian McCaskill apparently afraid to even tell...
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Rheoli amser ac astudio
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rheoli amser ac astudio

...management] ‘Does dim dianc rhag y ffaith y gall bywyd fod yn brysur iawn a bod llawer i’w jyglo. Gall Cynlluniwr Amser Y Brifysgol Agored eich helpu chi weld yn union sut allwch chi wneud amser i astudio o gwmpas eich ymrwymiadau eraill. Drwy ddefnyddio cynlluniwr, gallwch amserlennu popeth sy’n digwydd, pob apwyntiad a thasg fel nad ydych chi’n mynd yn brin o...
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CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...manage emotions, build relationships, seize opportunities and make responsible decisions. SEL has been promoted by CASEL (1994) and conceptualised by scholars such as Dewey, Vygotsky and Goleman, all of whom emphasise the importance of relationships, emotions and social interaction in learning. In crisis-adaptive contexts, our studies reconceptualise SEL as an evolving,...
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Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...management agreement, training courses, mentoring). If an action plan is too far from the coachee’s current knowledge, skills or situation, then they may become discouraged and demotivated. Moreover, when designing actions, a crucial aspect is that coachee has the responsibility for carrying these out. Therefore, the coach can make a difference by helping coachees...
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