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Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?

...thinking and emotion. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia. Other causes include vascular disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and fronto-temporal dementia. Dementia symptoms include difficulty recalling recent events, concentrating and following conversation. Dementia is incurable but research into a cure is ongoing. Mixed dementia is possible, for...
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Article 20 mins
Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...thinking and knowing. In one notebook entry the late Nietzsche writes rather cryptically: The logical negation of the world and the annihilation [of its value] results from our need to oppose Being to Non-being [the Nothing], and that the concept of ‘Becoming’ is denied. (Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Notebooks, 1887–88) It requires a lot of analysis and...
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Article 5 mins
Meet the ThrustWSH project team
Science, Maths & Technology

Meet the ThrustWSH project team

...think if you were on the team you would spend a lot of time at a computer? Listen to Matthew Kear who works on the electronics to find out. Transcript. Why are we excited about super-cavitating hydrofoils? Aeroplanes can fly at high speeds but they move through air. ThrustWSH has to reach high speeds by flying in (or on) the water! To turn this into a reality the team are...
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Video 30 mins
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...thinking from a deficit model to a strength-based one and has been reflected in informal approaches by coaches in sport (Hoare et al., 2023; Kimber et al., 2023). As a result, elements of neurodiversity which in the past were viewed as negative and not ‘normal’, can now be viewed as something to be championed and utilised. For example, an autistic person who may have...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...think would be said? Although most students’ formal science learning begins in school, they learn a great deal informally outside of school. Consider for one moment the out-of-school encounters you have had with science this week – science is all around us. Through this, students learn about the nature of science; how science is done, who does science, what science is...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...think about how you currently read and then be introduced to a some techniques that may help you to alter the way you read according to the material you are studying. In the second section you will be asked to look at some useful techniques for note taking and how you may apply them to the notes you make. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...think of sport injury as a physical experience, but sport injury also has various psychological aspects. Before you start to investigate the research and theory around the psychological aspects of sport injury, you’ll first examine your own thoughts on the potential links. Activity 2 Early thoughts – psychological aspects of injury Timing: Allow about 10 minutes If...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...systems and language associated with minerals and rocks use the essential terms, concepts and strategies of mineralogy apply knowledge and understanding of the study of rock thin sections using a polarising microscope work with and recognise a variety of minerals and microtextures in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks make systematic descriptions and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs