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Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...social welfare benefits and clearing 450,000 ha of the invasive plants The diagramming techniques develop skills in understanding complex situations of intervention and revealing significant challenges as well as opportunities of development intervention. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 3 study in Computing and IT courses...Diagramming for development 2:...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...social media, children being concerned about global warming or young people worrying about their family’s ability to pay for their household’s necessities, such as food. Before looking at some data, you will consider your own thoughts about whether the UK is facing a child and adolescent mental health crisis. Activity 1 Are we facing a crisis? Timing: Allow about 20...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...social factors that may impact on participation in extreme endurance sports apply psychological, physiological and sociological perspectives to a topic...Extreme endurance performances: 1 Applying a multidisciplinary approach - The introduction to this course highlighted that you will be using a multidisciplinary approach to examine contemporary issues from a variety of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...social elements (psychosocial). You might have summarised the findings from the two research articles discussed; one that collected primary data through the use of focus groups and one that analysed written narratives of athletes from autobiographies. Then listen to the following audio recording, ‘Developing resilience in sport’, in which resilience researcher Dr...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...social displacement, wandering, and the attempt of the absent (presumed dead) hero Odysseus to return home. The Greeks called that quest nostos. The other major poem that survives, the Iliad, tells the story of the war at Troy and the clash between exceptional heroes, such as Achilles and Agamemnon. Chris Emlyn-Jones The poems are primarily about fighting and action, but...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...Social Exclusion Unit (SEU)...Partnerships and networks in work with young people: 2.2 Young people and social exclusion - [A photograph of a group of four teenagers, sitting on a wall at the side of a street.] Figure 3 The creation of the SEU was particularly significant in the development of partnership working in relation to work with young people – so much so that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...social constructivism (see, for example, Vygotsky, 1978), communities of practice (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998, 2006) and the teacher as learner (see, for example, Cochrane-Smith and Lytle, 1999). In these ways we see teachers as learning together and constructing new shared knowledge. In doing so a community is developed around the learning, knowledge and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...social media “likes” say more than you might think’. Pay particular attention to: the introduction (language, topic, how she relates to audience, etc…) the middle of part of the talk (where does it start, where does it end) the conclusion (what it includes, how it ends) the linking phrases you hear throughout the talk the tone, style, body language, visuals used....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs