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The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...English Institute of Sport (EIS) #More2Me campaign launched in 2019 to help athletes develop a better sport–life balance. This campaign is part of their performance lifestyle programme. You will explore performance lifestyle next...Session 3: Out of the blocks – preparing athletes for career transitions: 2 Performance lifestyle - In recognition of the challenges that...
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...everyday language, the word 'power' is often used as a synonym for 'energy', but this is not strictly correct. Power is the rate at which energy is converted from one form to another or transmitted from one place to another. The scientific unit of power is the watt. Renewable energy can take a variety of these forms, and can be defined as: energy obtained from the...
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...everyday life people tend to use these terms interchangeably, in reality they are two separate (though related) entities. The internet is a global network of networks: an internetwork (hence its name). It is the infrastructure that connects computers together. At first written with an upper-case ‘I’, it is increasingly seen with a lower-case ‘i’. The Web (short...
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...everyday language there are many environments – the economic environment, the political environment, for example – as well as the 'natural environment'. What we mean by these usages is the context in which we live and work, which both shapes and influences us and on which we, in turn, have an effect. They are all suitable topics for study, but this course is mainly...
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...everyday experiences. More recently, social models of neurodiversity (and other disabilities) have emerged which position neurodiverse experiences within social interactions and influenced by the world around us. This has helped shift thinking from a deficit model to a strength-based one and has been reflected in informal approaches by coaches in sport (Hoare et al.,...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...everyday problems, particularly in safety limits but elsewhere too. For example, medicines may have to be stored at a temperature of 25 °C or less. Child rail tickets can be bought for children who are 5 or more years old but less than 16 years old. Rather than writing out ‘greater than’ or ‘less than’, some shorthand notation is often used as shown below....
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...everyday life and help them feel value...Understanding children: Babies being heard: 1 People right from the start - In this course you will meet the family that you read about in the Introduction and find out some of the things very young babies can do. You will also discover how babies can contribute to family life and relationships from birth. You will look at what...
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...everyday professional practice, by harvesting and harnessing the host of research into health and social care that exists to inform the development of new policy and practice. To help steer your thinking the next section explores three case studies which illustrate what this might mean. Use these case studies to stimulate your thinking about literature you might want to...