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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...resource for conversation, for connection and for spinning webs of reader relationships. Such ‘books in common’ play a particularly resonant role in helping build communities of engaged readers. Reading Teachers In the TaRs project some, though not all teachers, developed as Reading Teachers—teachers who read and readers who teach, and who explore the classroom...
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 1: Exploring sporting success: Introduction - Your starting point for this course is to look more closely at the range of factors that contribute to sporting success. By exploring the big picture, you will be able to see how coaching and psychology lie at the...
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...human tissues...Histology is a key part of modern medicine – it helps us study cells and tissues at a microscopic level, and accurately diagnose diseases such as cancer. This free course, Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease, will help you understand the basic principles of light microscopy, before introducing you to histology, concentrating on the structure,...
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...human behaviour, which presumes that people act entirely in their own self interest). He shows that context often proves decisive in decision making by parents about whether to allow their children to be immunised with the MMR vaccine. Although risk is always a social evaluation, rather than a natural phenomenon that can be separated from its context, risk experts often...
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...resources included in the course for further information and support...Explore interesting and challenging ideas around death, dying and grief. This free course, An introduction to death, dying and grief, invites you to think more deeply about death and dying and encourages you to think about it in different ways. This course will introduce you to different perspectives...
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas in Dreamthorp

...human mortal. The day dies, and makes no apology for being such an unconscionable time in dying; and all the while it colours our thoughts with its own solemnity. There is no relief from this kind of thing at midsummer. You cannot close your shutters and light your candles; that in the tone of mind which circumstances superinduce would be brutality. You cannot take...
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...Humanities module. SPEAKER 5 I've done the S103 and SXR. I've attempted a couple modules where I wasn't successful with, but a couple of them were kind of more leisure, something that I wanted to have a go at. SPEAKER 4 But it gives you a taste every month with a TMA-- Tutor Marked Assignment. And a lot of students think they want to do maybe sociology or psychology, and...
The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor
History & The Arts

The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor

...Humanities...The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the central role played by the Roman emperor in the construction and development of culture, identity and power...The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor: 1 The emperor and his subjects - The image of Augustus as a good...