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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...change. As a leader, this might mean asking difficult questions about your own practice. Are there ways in which well-intentioned policies or interventions might be limiting rather than enabling? Are there voices that are not being heard because they do not fit the dominant narrative? How leaders relate to others and how they use their interpersonal competencies to work...
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Understanding the realities of invisible disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding the realities of invisible disabilities

...change the narrative and make these issues visible. There are also changes to the way in which support packages like Access to Work operate to make the burden of proof lower. Nonetheless, there is still change needed and given that the majority of disabled people have invisible conditions, these issues are not marginal. Improving understanding and reducing unnecessary...
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Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...change software, to make it their own. They might have different motivations, but if you’re already modifying something for yourself, answering the “Why share?” question is really easy with “Why not?” By the time the code executes correctly, the immediate users of the software—that is, the coders themselves—are already familiar with the software and can...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...change things, communicate, experiment, experiences, issues, people, sharing. Refining your question. Once you have come up with a draft question, it’s a good idea to share it with others so that you can benefit from their feedback. If you are studying for your EPQ at school, you could ask fellow students or your teacher for feedback; if you’re studying at home, you...
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Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...changed over the period 1950-2010. As an example of how to read this chart, in 2010 there were just over 8 million males - the larger blue bar - in the second (5 to 10) age category and about 8 million girls: the height of the overlapped purple column. For the same year, in the 25-30 age band, there were about 7 million females - the larger pink bar, this time - and just...
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Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...changes, such as an increased heart rate, which return to normal after exercise. Long term adaptations are the physiological changes that become more permanent in response a training programme such as an increase in muscle strength. These adaptations can be split into three categories – morphological changes, metabolic changes and neuromuscular changes (Lambert and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Dive deeper with these extra articles
Society, Politics & Law

Dive deeper with these extra articles

...change? Another recent research project that used creative methods to co-produce knowledge about migration explored the experiences of migrant mothers: Migrant mothers caring for the future Currently the OU is leading a project that explores how to use creative methods for researching and co-producing knowledge with migrant families: PASAR - Participation Arts and social...
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Students’ experiences of online tutorials in health and social care
Education & Development

Students’ experiences of online tutorials in health and social care

...they are unable to use the microphone. A poll enables students to share how they are feeling about their studies, whilst the tutor is visible through the webcam. It is important that universities and tutors know about students’ experiences, both positive and negative so that we can make changes to how we work and provide the best possible opportunities for learning....
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