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Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 1: What is peace?: Introduction - Welcome to this free online course, Principles and practices of peace education,...
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...out what musicians do in rehearsals and performances? Would you like to learn different techniques for listening to and understanding music? This free course provides a general introduction to how to understand a musical score, and insights into what professional musicians do with the notation that these contain. You'll learn how to connect the notation you see with the...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...out that a lot of these northern species, such as would be in the UK, need winter chilling. So a cold winter gives them the cue that winter is happening and as it warms up in spring it tells them, OK, winter’s over, now it’s spring, now I can start flowering. But when you have a warm winter they keep waiting around for the cold because they keep thinking winter...
Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...Out of sight is not out of mind: The impact of restricting wireless mobile device use on anxiety levels among low, moderate and high users. Computers in Human Behavior, 37, 290-297. Corcoran, K., Crusius, J., & Mussweiler, T. (2011). Social comparison: Motives, standards, and mechanisms. D. Charee (Ed.), Theories in Social Psychology, Wiley (2011), pp. 119-139 Deloitte...
Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...out fundamental beliefs that may lie dormant in peacetime. For example, the long-running Israel-Palestine conflict, initially arose from the territorial and refugee issues that accompanied the formation of the state of Israel in 1947. Yet in recent decades, it has increasingly acquired a religious dimension. On the other hand, religion cannot be easily separated out as a...
Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...out, and so you get what you pay for. Owners of American teams are often characterised as profit-maximisers who view ­professional sport as a business for making money. There is a market for clubs too. While there is a myth of eternal loyalty on the part of fans, this is true only for a small minority. Most fans tend to follow a team more intensively the more successful...
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...out in ascending order using this subscript notation. [Described image] Figure 2 Subscript notation for ordered data The lower extreme, uppercase E subscript uppercase L end , is labelled x subscript open bracket 1 close bracket end and the upper extreme, uppercase E subscript uppercase U end , is labelled x subscript open bracket 15 close bracket end . The middle value...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...out that 'major depressive disorder was assumed to precede generalized anxiety disorder until a 32-year prospective follow-up study challenged this notion', citing the work of Moffitt et al. published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 2007, and that 'the reverse pattern seems to be frequently present', 'the combination of generalized anxiety disorder and major...