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Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...Introduction - Recovery should be an important part of every sport and exercise participant’s training programme. All participants need to rest and recover after an intensive training session, but have you considered why this period of recovery is so important? The obvious answer to this is so that the individual is ready to take on their next training session and train...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...Introduction - This course introduces you to the concepts of: open educational resources (OERs) issues involved in the creation, use and re-use, and pedagogy of OERs a range of tools and media to support you in developing your own teaching and learning practices. It will provide you with the skills and confidence to engage in further OER work as both creator and user....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...Managing Director/Senior Scientist of Climate Analytics,is interviewed by Roger Harrabin for 'Stories of Change'...[Bill Hare] Dr. (h.c) Bill Hare, CEO and Managing Director / Senior Scientist Bill Hare is co-founder of Climate Analytics, a physicist and climate scientist with 25 years’ experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and...
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Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...Introduction - The ancient Greeks did not have a term equivalent to the English word ‘religion’. However, their world was populated by numerous figures they both recognised and worshipped as divinities. Among these figures was Amphiaraos (pronounced am-fi-ah-RAY-os), an ancient Greek hero who was later worshipped as a god and popularly associated with healing through...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...Introduction - In this course you will focus on how to be a critical reader. Reading critically is an essential skill at university. It means being aware of your own purposes and opinions as you read and being able to recognise the author’s purposes and opinions in their writing. The texts used in this course all present arguments in different ways. Argument texts are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...Introduction - For most, if not all, people, the attachments we have with others are at the centre of our lives and play a large part in determining how happy and contented we are. Attachments are two-way, dynamic processes between people and start from the beginning of life. John Bowlby, often called ‘the father of attachment theory’, was the key figure in developing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...Introduction - This is the second of three courses. It continues on from the discussion of voice-leading analysis begun in AA314_1 Voice-leading analysis of music 1: the foreground and which will continue in AA314_3 Voice-leading analysis of music 3: the background. This course returns to the study of Mozart's harmonic style that was begun in AA314_1. Once again, we will...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...managers should be taxed more heavily. Should Trump actually be appointed President he would undoubtedly be a loose cannon, domestically and internationally. This could seriously damage the standing of the Party and the nation for a decade or more to come. But polls are beginning to show that the gap between him and the gaggle of Republican also-rans is now widening. The...
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