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Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...article 'Freedom and Resentment'. Read I and II and answer the following questions. How do Strawson's labels of ‘optimist’ and ‘pessimist’ correspond to the labels introduced in the final two paragraphs of the last section? What is the impasse into which, Strawson implies, the optimist and pessimist have argued themselves? What can you deduce about where...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...et al., 2010. Activity 3 Updating your knowledge Timing: Allow about 15 minutes Now revise your notes from Activity 1 in light of the quiz feedback. Keep your updated notes to hand as you read the next section...Week 1: Introducing the autism spectrum: 2 What is autism? - This section gives an overview of key facts about autism. Read it through, and add to your notes...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...article Sports Injuries to explore some of the causes and types of sport injury. (You can open the link in a new tab by holding down Ctrl [or Cmd on a Mac] when you click the link.) Dr. Jordan Metzl So, there are two kinds of injuries in sports medicine. The acute traumatic injuries, that’s when somebody runs and trips and falls on their hand or their head. Those...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...et al., 2017). It stands to reason that children who enjoy reading tend to read more and thus become better at reading, yet choosing to read also impacts on children’s wider educational attainment. For example, Reading for Pleasure is positively associated with comprehension, grammar and wider vocabulary (Sullivan and Brown, 2015). In addition, it was found in one study...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...et al. (2018) found that swimming training with a parachute (speed resistance) improved swimming speed. Speed training can be progressed by increasing the volume (the demand that the athlete places on their body), load (resist movement or increase height in plyometrics) or frequency (number of sessions per week) of training. Speed resistance training, as with the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...article ‘Hero’, considering what qualities identify the hero as opposed to the great man. Which type of man seems to owe more to innate talent and genius? Which type of man can be identified with enlightened ideals? A hero is defined as a man steadfast in difficulties, intrepid in peril and very valiant in combat; these qualities are linked more to temperament and to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...article on CNN reported a few weeks ago, the government of the United States are ‘now lying about lying’, and seemingly doing so with impunity. The CNN article was commenting on an interview with White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, in which she asserted that Donald Trump doesn’t tell lies. What he does, she said, is ‘communicate… in a way that some...
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Video 5 mins
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...et al., 2013). However, others argue that it can be very helpful to be self-aware about the approaches you are taking to learning, and to try out new approaches to learning more effectively...Developing your skills as an HR professional: 2 Using reflection to improve performance - The ability to reflect on actions, and how effective they were, is expected of managers and,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs