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Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...with these types of predispositions. We celebrate them. Read at The Conversation: So what if some female Olympians have high testosterone? Note: This article originally stated that Caster Semenya has been diagnosed with hyperadrogenism; although several sources claim this as a fact it has never been confirmed and the article has been redrafted to make this clearer....
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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...article by clicking on the link below. Click 'view document' to open the file in a new window View document This was not to argue for schools following whatever direction universities choose to take. Far from it. But it was a call for different academic communities to stay connected. Without the wider discipline, school geography will lose its way (and vice versa?)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...et al, 1989). The underlying principle here being that if, for example, something is taken out of the earth, something else renewable must be substituted as compensation. The extreme of this idea would be not to take anything out of the earth at all, but that would perhaps be a little unrealistic. If there is no decline in natural capital, then the sustainability is seen...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...et al., 2003). Sharing your thoughts in writing on an online forum may lead to feelings of success, especially when you get positive feedback or stimulate a discussion. So far, you have reflected on your own experiences of using online learning forums and how you feel – or would feel – about using them. You have also begun to consider some of the learning benefits of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...et al., 2014a). Even after music printing had been firmly established, repertory continued to circulate in manuscript. This was perhaps due to there being a lack of music printer-publishers in certain locations, the wish to deliberately restrict or retain control over the dissemination of repertory, or to assert the status of a specially prepared copy (Wyn Jones, 2005, p....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...article ‘Organizing for the future: Nine keys to becoming a future-ready company’ (De Smet et al., 2021) states reinvention is needed, and proposes the following nine imperatives that future-ready companies will exhibit. [Described image] (De Smet et al., 2021) Figure 7 Nine organisational imperatives for future-ready companies The trends and imperatives may be areas...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...article has much broader appeal beyond educational research and is also relevant to postgraduate researchers of other disciplines outside of education. You do not need to read all of this paper. Instead you should ensure you have sufficient familiarisation with the topic to be able to appreciate the context for the text outlined in the boxes in the briefing. We suggest...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...et al., 2017). Luckily, the spread of the malware was significantly slowed down by a security researcher, Marcus Hutchins, who accidentally discovered and activated the ‘kill switch’ of the malware the next day, on 13 May 2017. When inspecting the malware’s code, Hutchins noticed an unusually long internet domain name in the code. He checked and found out that the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs