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The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...change. This course is designed to help you understand that journey, whether in reference to a professional or recreational athlete, and the nature of support they may need at different times. The course also provides practical guidance, whether you support athletes as a coach or parent or whether you are an athlete yourself, and draws on a wealth of case study and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...change. Opinions about law, lawyers, judges and the function of the legal system vary. The role and function of law is often in the news and much debated. Whether law is used to protect, regulate, uphold rights, challenge authority, resolve disputes or govern, it is central to society. In this week you are encouraged to explore your own thoughts and views about law and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...changed in ways better suited to living and hunting in an aquatic environment. In particular, I shall explore the so-called 'diving response' (Section 3), and describe some of the problems involved in finding out how the animals behave on their dives. Finally, in Section 4, I shall look at what is now known about the evolution of the mammals that have made the most...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...changed to ensure this young person and their family cannot be identified. Case study: Lily [A picture of ‘Lily’, a teenager who, based on her facial expression, appears to be distressed.] Lily is 14 years old and lives at home with her mother and father. She is worried that her family, especially her mother (June), will die in a natural disaster, like an earthquake...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...changes to lower level protocols. In practice, refinements were made to the TCP congestion control, and RFC 2001 documents the refinements to the congestion control algorithms, giving details of the TCP protocol congestion control and start-up as it operated in working systems. This was converted into a standard recorded in RFC 2309 (which later gained some small...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...changes. This is a more inclusive way of thinking about mental distress, avoiding the fixed boundary between ‘them’ and ‘us’, and allowing everyone to move between points as circumstances change and episodes of distress come and go. This is not a view shared by everyone. In the article by Perkins (Reading 1) that you read in Activity 1, she argues against the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...changed considerably, particularly since the advent of the internet and it is these new interpretations that we will be looking at. They include: Open educational resources; Open licences; Open courses or MOOCs; Pedagogy for open education; Literacies and technology for openness. A word or two about studying an open course To get the most from this course we recommend you...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)

...change, working out how many packs of cakes you need for the children’s birthday party and splitting the bill in a restaurant are all examples that come to mind. [Described image] Figure 1 Fruit maths puzzle The four operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You need to understand what each operation does and when to use it and at level 2, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs