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Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...a digitally-informed and empowered school leader and learn how to help your school respond more effectively to technology-driven change through COVID-19 and beyond. This free course will help secondary school leaders make decisions about the provision and use of online learning. School leaders in secondary education need to plan digital strategies, devise plans and
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Training for endurance in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for endurance in sport and fitness

...becomes the dominant energy system in exercise, it dictates that endurance becomes the major feature of the activity. Table 1 shows the aerobic and anaerobic energy systems’ contribution to maximal exercise. Table 1 Estimates of anaerobic and aerobic energy contribution during selected periods of maximal exercise Duration of exhaustive exercise (sec) % OF ENERGY...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...become essential to children’s learning in primary schools across the UK and further afield. Whatever your learning support role in schools may be, you are part of this historic development. For convenience, we have adopted the generic term ‘teaching assistant’ throughout this unit. We use these words in preference to ‘TAs’, which, we feel, is reducing of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...the information you consume...BBC News 24, Sky News, CNN. We live in an era where news has become almost instantaneous. This free course, IT: Information, will look at how news is gathered and the technology that's used for its dissemination. You will also be encouraged to examine how information might be manipulated by questioning its reliability....IT: Information: Introduction - This course looks at the technologies used ......
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...becomes, that are affected. These also affect the personal lives of those around her – tragically so if the Sheriff's interpretation of events holds. But, in less extreme forms, in more moderate regimes that connect welfare to work, ways of conceptualising rights and entitlements are shifting, ‘common-sense’ ideas about welfare are changing, and how welfare subjects...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...become such a focus of a person’s life that the fear itself impacts nearly all aspects of their quality of life. In the next section you will find out more about the experience of panic disorder...Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them: 1.3 Experience of panic disorder - So far you have learned about how mental health professionals define panic attacks...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...become able to receive and process streams of sensory information by being temporarily attached or ‘housed’ in a material body. Indeed, according to scholastic theological tradition, since angels do not have bodies they must borrow unused ones in order to deliver messages to earth. It is important to realise just how puzzling the nature of such a mind would be if...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...OU carbon calculator ‘Summary’ footprint screen. The student’s existing footprint is 14.89 tonnes CO2e per year; this is greater than the UK national average of 14.60 tonnes CO2e per person per year. b. The carbon calculator is a simplified computer model of the real world. Why is such a model useful, and what is the implication of it being based on the consumption...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs