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Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...concept is helpful in understanding that the influence is not always fully reciprocal – ‘older’ parts of the brain such as the limbic brain appear to have a stronger influence on the ‘newer’ parts than vice versa. For instance, neural pathways sending messages from the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex (PFC) which is part of the neocortex are extensive, but...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...concepts associated with migration. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course S295 The biology of survival. Figure 1 Migration word cloud...Migration: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe some of the migratory journeys made by birds and other animals explain the process of adaptation by natural...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...in Inclusive Elementary Classrooms and Correlates with Student Self-Concept’, International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 48(1), pp. 33–52. Jordan, A., Glenn, C. and McGhie-Richmond, D. (2010) The Supporting Effective Teaching (SET) project, Teaching and Teacher Education 26(2), pp. 259–266. Kennedy, S. & Stewart, H. (2011) ‘Collaboration between occupational therapists and teachers: definitions,......
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...prompt, draw a spider diagram (sometimes called a mind map) of your skills and experience matching them to the kinds of jobs that are likely to be available in your field. Also note where you think you might need additional training if you were going to enter this area of work. Figure 3 Spider diagram You can draw your diagram by hand or using a mind-mapping tool such as...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...de te ne le gu ku hu wo yi You will then hear some consonants, or initials, combined with the final i. Listen and repeat. ji qi xi zi ci si zhi chi shi ri You will now hear six single vowels known as finals in Chinese. Repeat after each sound. a e i o u ü Now we will combine these vowels with some consonants known as initials in Chinese. Note how similar they sound to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...concept the interpretative cornerstone of my biography of Hitler. The more you look at Hitler, the more the point strikes home. He alone was capable of such a monstrous vision. He alone was prepared at all stages to think the unthinkable, unhesitatingly to take the most radical options, to burn all bridges behind him. But in presiding over such breathtakingly terrible...
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Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...concepts. These references are a good place to start: Cameron, E. and Green, M. (2009) Making Sense of Change Management: A complete guide to the models, tools and techniques of organizational change, 2nd edn, London, Kogan Page. Dawson, P. (1994) Organisational Change – A processual approach, London, Paul Chapman Publishing. Staff resistance to change has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...concept of beings who are dead coming back to life in an altered form. Who popularised the term 'uncanny'? Jentsch describes the uncanny in German as ‘unheimlich’ (or unhomely) as something strange and unfamiliar. Sigmund Freud's essayThe Uncanny (1919), however, developed this idea to include a quality of being familiar and also strange at the same time. For Freud...
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Article 45 mins