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Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...system and the brain (Burrell et al., 2014). There are oestrogen receptors all over the body, and thus this hormone influences many body processes, with important roles in cognitive health, including memory and ability to concentrate, mood changes through its role in regulating the feel good chemical serotonin, bone and joint health, the regulation of body temperature,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...system or their life. I remember you know an example from working in practice being asked to support a gentleman who had a file this thick, and all it was about was about the risks that this person presented with, and it was scary to read, and it made me very anxious about working with him. Thankfully we had a good working relationship. And whilst those risks were...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...system’. Countries take turns hosting an annual meeting at which government representatives report on progress, set intermediate goals, make agreements to share scientific and technological advances of global benefit, and negotiate policy’ (Lindsey, 2022). The edited contributions in these videos come from national representatives and climate activists from across...
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Article 5 hrs
Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...system and those in different systems extracting and interpreting information from tables, diagrams, charts and graphs collecting and recording discrete data, and organising and representing information in different ways finding the mean, median and range of a group of numbers. Finding the mean from grouped data using data to assess the likelihood of an outcome and...
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Free course 48 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...system. […] This means that dealing with children’s literature involves responsibility, because what may at first sight seem like trivial or ephemeral texts are in fact immensely powerful. They have been read by millions upon millions of people at the period in their lives when they are most susceptible to new ideas. It is inconceivable that these texts have not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...systems move through, or heating systems fail. Moving around is not necessarily any better, and can expose us to even wider ranges of temperature. An airliner may leave the ground where the temperature is in the high twenties Celsius and climb within minutes to a height where the outside temperature is minus fifty. It turns out that almost all materials properties change...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...systems to prevent trains passing through red lights, so as to prevent collisions (the Train Protection and Warning System – TPWS – deployment completed at the end of 2003; see www.railwaypeople.com [accessed 18 June 2009]). Naturally these systems have to be installed on the track and subsequently maintained. The problem is that the trackside is a very dangerous...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate
Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...system will likely ring dubious to many primary voters. Finally, his flippant response to Megyn Kelly’s question about his record on gender sensitivity will likely haunt his political and post-political career. Carly Fiorina received a lot of positive buzz after the underdog debate, and as one of the “outsider candidates,” she provides a stark contrast to Donald...
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Article 5 mins