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Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...Working with statistical information is a key skill and the course will guide you in this through two structured activities. Activity 3 asks you to explore a website for information about family health. Again, a step by step approach is taken to guide you through this process. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Health & Social Care...Exploring...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Training for endurance in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for endurance in sport and fitness

...working muscles with oxygen to supply fuel (via the aerobic energy system) for the length of the climb and prevent fatigue (cardiorespiratory endurance). Muscles will need to continually contract in order to provide propulsion, strength and maintain technique (muscular strength endurance). Using a combination of cardiorespiratory and muscular strength endurance, climbers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...work. Video 1 provides some quick snapshots of some of the varied topics, issues and social situations that the social sciences explore. It’s intention is to stimulate your curiosity. [Music playing] [Text on screen]: The social world [Text on screen]: How is it interconnected? Cargo bike is going to lead to Langside. [Music playing] [Text on screen]: Where is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...work together. In Section 3, we will consider the long and rich story of human involvement in the making of islands, including the often awe-inspiring journeys that island settlers have undertaken to arrive at their new homelands far out in the ocean. Humans, however, are not alone in settling islands, and they are rarely, if ever, the first to arrive. Therefore, in this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...works. We are currently working to update this....The Ancient Olympics: Bridging past and present: Introduction - Our modern Games and the Ancient Olympics are different in many respects – today’s Olympics are strictly secular, whilst the Ancient Olympics were steeped in religion; our modern Games have 42 disciplines, compared to the six of the Classical world; today,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...work with numbers expressed in scientific notation, and use the Windows calculator to perform calculations on these numbers...IT: device to device communication: 1.1 Getting an overview - This section starts with an article from a technical journal – the sort that is read by academics and professionals working in a related technical field. It sets the scene for some of...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...work by Shaw and Garlan: Software architecture encompasses the set of significant decisions about the organization of a software system including the selection of the structural elements and their interfaces by which the system is composed; behaviour as specified in collaboration among those elements; composition of these structural and behavioural elements into larger...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Hammering into hearts: How Dilshod Nazarov's Rio victory lifted the Tajiks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hammering into hearts: How Dilshod Nazarov's Rio victory lifted the Tajiks

...work, rattled the national economy to its core. The country has enjoyed few sporting achievements during a 25-year independence that began with a bloody civil war and has continued on through poverty, corruption and authoritarianism. No surprise, then, that Nazarov is being placed on a pedestal with the same pride he exhibited when he topped the podium on a sweltering...
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