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Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...socialize with, including men, are often affected. Therefore, we need to move away from thinking of it as a women's problem. That is something only supported by other women and make it into a person problem. Understanding the changes and impact of the menopause will help women, including those people around them. Awareness and more consideration will help people to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...social computing technologies, these Facebooks and things. What do we do about that? It’s an issue of in general a face for our students as we do more and more e-learning. We move more away from just purely face to face to more blended, more e-learning. What do we do and not do? How do we take account of that? And there are all those different aspects. But behind it...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...social circles, means that the ‘female part’ of being a female athlete or exerciser is often overlooked. As a result sport and fitness environments are often not optimised for women and limit their chances of positive outcomes...Session 1: Mind the gap: gender differences in sport science research and its impact on female athletes: 4 Why is the female
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...social context, the purpose they serve and what they signify to their recipients. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A342 Central questions in the study of music...Music and its media: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge of the main ways in which music is transmitted...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...social stigma, with the exception that some professions would have been closed to him. He was a welcomed child and was raised in his father’s house, who married another woman. [Statue of Leonardo's Vitruvian man in Stockholm] 1460 Leonardo moved to Florence (see Florence), with his father. Florence In the 14th Century, Florence had been a city in decline. It had seen...
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Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...social relationships and her ability to concentrate. Comment You may have considered: adapting language, instructions and questions especially for Winston and Nina completing short assessments throughout a lesson, rather than leaving them until the end (Ash, Nina) help from a scribe (Ash) ways of raising the students’ self-esteem (for example, setting achievable...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...social and commercial reasons for learning a language. You will now consider some of these further and how to justify the compulsory study of a language on the secondary school curriculum...Teaching secondary modern foreign languages: 1.2 Why learn a modern foreign language? - A modern language is unlike any other subject on the school curriculum. In other subjects –...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...social housing, on the grounds that her quality of life will be better there. Answer There is no space in this taster course for a detailed discussion of these examples, but I'll briefly indicate my own views; you may disagree. I think (1) is probably a legitimate application of the concept of positive freedom. Most people want to have a comfortable old age, and in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs