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Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...world of classical music is. [Described image] This week, you will reflect on how we got into this situation, including the historical exclusion of women composers from the classical music canon and music education, issues accessing scores of their compositions, and financial nervousness around programming works with which audiences might be unfamiliar. You will then turn...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...world enriched’ (Philpott, 2008). This suggests a conception of learning and hence an aim of teaching as being about more than the mere transmission and acquiring of factual musical knowledge or even instrumental or vocal skills. Reflection point Think back to your own experiences as a young learner. Identify one example of teaching (from any subject), which you think...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...World Health Organization (2004) and covers mental disorders in Chapter V. You will see how this handbook describes schizophrenia later in this course. Both manuals take a fairly similar approach and describe many of the same conditions, mainly differing in how they group various disorders together in subsections of chapters. In both handbooks, sets of symptoms are listed...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...World : Management and managerialism (Payne, 2009), pp. 143–5 and pp. 153–6 Strategic planning and leadership (Payne, 2009), pp.183–4. Then, to gain a deeper understanding of management and leadership theories, read the following book chapter: Leading, managing, caring This is by Simons and Lomax and appears in Mackian, S. and Simons J. (eds) Leading, Managing,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...world leaders in the research and delivery of online education. In this free course, we share the fundamental knowledge needed to deliver effective teaching online. This course is suitable for anyone moving teaching online, including educators, collaborators/support staff and leaders. In the course, you will be introduced to online education, hear about the experiences of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...world with different problems. At the beginning of the 20th century, nutritionists wanted to ensure people were well fed. The calorie was a useful way to quantify a person’s needs. Today, excess weight affects more people than hunger; 1.9 billion adults around the world are considered overweight, 600 million of them obese. Obesity brings with it a higher risk of...
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Video 5 mins
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...world, and can be dated back to around 400 BC (Violatti, 2016). It is spoken by more than 85 million people (Ethnologue, 2021), most of them in Tamil Nadu (meaning ‘The Tamil Nation’), a state in southern India. Tamil is a language rich in literature, philosophy and music, and thus of interest to many people. It is one of the 22 official languages of India. [A model...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...world today, it is clear that we can be greatly affected by events that take place well away from our immediate environment. Although our immediate environment is where we live, work and meet other people in our daily lives, we are also connected to and influenced by factors further from home. Think about the influence of the internet, social media and cheap air travel...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs