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Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...changing as they get older. We do intergenerational with residents and children once a month and then with the residents once a week during growing times. So they're getting the residents down. I'm preparing everything ready for that activity. I can come up with a project idea and go to Alistair, who's head of activities, obviously, see if he's got any budgets. But same...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Ageism and age discrimination
Society, Politics & Law

Ageism and age discrimination

...change how we view others and ourselves, perpetuate intolerance between generations, devaluing what younger and older people can contribute. It can also negatively impact our health, longevity and well-being while also having far-reaching economic consequences. In this course you’ll be learning what ageism is and why it matters, as well as what the law says on ageism...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...change in the behaviour of the learner. It originated in the early part of the twentieth century from the work of Watson, Thorndike and Skinner (e.g. Skinner, 1974) and is based on the premise that learning can be broken down into discrete elements, which can be separated out, taught, practised and fitted together again. This type of learning might be considered...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...changed in 20 years. There is now overwhelming evidence that by far the most common cause of narcolepsy is an autoimmune attack, where the body’s immune system mishandles an upper respiratory infection and mistakenly wipes out the estimated 30,000 neurons in the centre of the brain. In an organ of up to 100 billion cells, this might not sound like too much to worry...
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Article 15 mins
Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...change in one person given a specific treatment is not as valid as noting the same change in two or three people and ideally in a much larger group. The clinical trials that occur today to test new drugs may consist of hundreds of participants. The number of participants or sample size of an experiment is the number of identical observations (replicates) that can be made...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...change that balance as their freelance work becomes more successful. Depending on the circumstances, a portfolio career can potentially give you more options if something unexpected happens. For example, you may be able to focus your time and attention on certain roles that are more resilient to whatever change has arisen, changing the balance again when the situation...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...changes direction (as in making a rapid turn to avoid an opponent in hockey). In the next section you will further your understanding of speed by exploring biomechanical principles...Training for speed and power in sport and fitness: 2.1 The mechanics of speed - In this section you will investigate the biomechanics of speed in order to buttress your understanding of speed...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...change their meaning. Gallstones Again, context would be a useful strategy. From the context in which this word is used, it is possible to understand that this is a disease as it is part of a list of diseases from which obese people may suffer. Depending on the purpose for reading this text, you may decide that it is not essential to understand the word in order to gain a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs