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Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...working in sport and fitness environments are used to help understand the theories presented...This free course explores the term 'motivation' and factors affecting motivation. This includes looking at the most influential theories of motivation that contribute to understanding the causes of motivation. The motivation of sports people and people working in sport and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...work for mental health charities, are keen to press upon the curious that there’s rarely, if ever, a single factor that leads to any self-inflicted death and that mental illness, most commonly depression, usually precedes such an event. “But the really important point is, most people with depression don’t kill themselves,” O’Connor tells me. “Less than 5 per...
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Article 15 mins
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...work that analytical concepts can do to make sense of complex environmental issues such as the issues of rights to land and food prices...‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?: 1 Analytical concepts used in this course - In this course you will touch on how three sets of analytical concepts – first, time and space; second, risk and uncertainty; and third, values,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...works, and identify how language connects ideas and keeps a listener engaged...This hands-on course will give you the skills and knowledge you need to create and deliver confident presentations and speeches. This free course introduces the mechanics of effective, persuasive oral presentations, by giving you the opportunity to analyse examples and then create your own....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Richard Brock - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Richard Brock - Earth in Vision

...worked as a natural history film producer for the BBC for 35 years, working on Life on Earth and The Living Planet. However, concerned by the lack of coverage on the state of the environment, he started his own independent production company, Living Planet Productions. They have made over one hundred films on environmental topics. He set up the Brock Initiative which uses...
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Video 30 mins
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...work, from research, script writing, filming, presenting, and editing, with the primary goal of inspiring her viewers to actively engage with the natural environment around them. In 2012 she established the production company Song Thrush Productions, and has received national and international recognition for her work. She has worked with organisations all over the...
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Video 30 mins
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...work on international human rights treaties would reveal over fifty different treaties, conventions and protocols (instruments which effect an amendment to a treaty or convention). Box 1: The verdict on public international law As this course (and the other W100 courses available on OpenLearn: Europe and the law, Judges and the law, Making and using rules) examine rules,...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...works around the world. You will explore psychological processes, behaviours and practice across diverse cultures and societies. By the end of this course, you will have expanded your knowledge and understanding of psychology, and how it operates across the globe. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course D110 Exploring psychological...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs