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Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...health and depression identify the role of stress in burnout. First you will look at how sport and training can have negative effects on athletes as in the case of Jonathan Trott who suffered burnout through prolonged stress and imbalance between training, competition and limited downtime. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...public or non-profit sector. This is achieved through a variety of learning techniques, including case studies, videos, activities and group discussions. Supporting this learning, students are encouraged to become critical thinkers about both how they undertake their own decisions, as well as how marketing influences our society...This free course, Marketing in the 21st...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...health and everything else, it’s not this niche new thing, it’s now an issue that most people are globally aware of, but it’s also got its detractors and its critics, so they’re always quick to jump on any kind of inaccuracy, so I think in environmental filmmaking you need to be even more careful and stringent with your facts. Climate change: A BBC film that made...
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Video 30 mins
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...public really, so we’re in touch with everybody around us and everybody that’s following our work and we can really produce exactly what it is that they want to see, so I suppose we’re kind of ticking all the boxes as quickly as possible, whereas TV, they produce fantastic quality stuff but it doesn’t necessarily meet everybody’s requirements of exactly what it...
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Video 30 mins
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...health) has a cumulative deleterious effect on educational outcomes, though the interplay of different ‘disadvantage’ indicators is very complex and nuanced and different combinations of inhibitors have different effects (see DfE 2019). In line with this way of thinking, the study of inclusion should be concerned with understanding and confronting the broader issue of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...publication asked about 10m people whether Alfred Landon or Franklin D Roosevelt would win, and about 2.4m replied. That is way bigger than the average opinion poll. Their results showed Landon well in the lead, but in fact Roosevelt won by a landslide. The problem was that the Literary Digest had asked (mainly) just its own readers, who were far from typical of the US...
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Article 10 mins
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...public life. Kerala-born blogger Inji Pennu, who now lives in Florida, describes Facebook as: …a place where we could gather around with other women and tell the world, I do not want men to grope me while going to school, I do not want men to tell me what to do at offices, I do not want my parents to give me off in a wedding. In late July of 2015, a politician in Kerala...
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Article 5 mins
True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...public was asked? We've dug through the archives to find some stories from the 1975 EEC Referendum...The decision to call the referendum was taken by Prime Minister Harold Wilson - but Tony Benn was instrumental in persuading him There were many pressures on Harold Wilson to find a way to settle the question of EEC membership. His predecessor, Ted Heath, had taken the...
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Video 2 hrs