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Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal, writing about Roger Federer: He just seems to have been born to play the game. His physique – his DNA – seems perfectly adapted to tennis … You get these blessed freaks of nature in other sports too. (Nadal and Carlin, 2011, p. 13) There is a tendency for some to gravitate towards ‘nature’ (i.e. fixed, born or genetic) as an...
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...Spanish. Found that wasn't for me. I didn't enjoy it at all. So then I went into NatWest Bank and worked my way up there. I became an in-house financial advisor and lasted about four years there until I really don't want to do this anymore. So I went to work for a specialist learning disabilities company that helped remediate learning difficulties through exercise....
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...Spanish authorities to let them into their waters (Brahic, 2007; Thompson, 2008; Lukacs, 2012; Burns and Strauss, 2013, p. 273). In 2012, George added 100 tonnes of iron off the Pacific coast of Canada, creating a plankton bloom approaching 10 000 km2, five times larger than typical blooms in the region (Figure 6b and c; Guardian, 2012; Lukacs, 2012; Xiu et al., 2014)....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...Spanish. These big languages. So again, OER enables these ideas that it’s an open textbook, that it might be translated into a language that’s relevant to that learner. But you all know this. Remember that technology only supports, not supplants good teaching. And so for institutions, thinking as an educational institution, don’t dismiss that one. Showcase teaching...
Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...Spanish educational community and in other communities, in the UK, for example. We are working together in the first project, which is about variable stars, the same, probably very similar to the one that you are going to work with. And the idea is that students can discover new variable stars and be the first one, be the first ones to identify those stars as variable...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...Spanish–American educator and venture capitalist, Mar Hershenson, gives advice on how to tailor your pitch to the person you are pitching to for the TEDTalk series, The Way We Work (Hershenson, 2023). Mar Hershenson Do you know the secret to successfully pitching an idea? Well, it's something kind of unexpected. It's FOMO. The fear of missing out. As someone who invest...
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...Spanish fly, although it's actually a green beetle. They would have ground it up and then applied the paste to his throat. But all that did was blister the skin. He said to his doctors, I die hard, but I'm not afraid to go. By late that evening, the first president of the United States was dead. Washington probably died from a simple infection. At the end of the 18th...
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...Spanish; staying with the family is intended to support her language development for future project visits and the presentation of research findings (73). The PI asks Sonya to document her observations and interactions with the local community in order to build up a better understanding of the educational and wider social context of the community.’ (Pennacchia, 2019, p....