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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
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
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
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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
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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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
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...world new chemical technology is now needed to ensure economical and sustainable water management. As the population increases, industries develop and the understanding of the health implications of pollutants grows. Pollution is defined as the introduction into the environment (water, air or land) of contaminants, the quantities, characteristics and duration of which are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...world where ice was denser than water and sank, rather than floated, consider these questions: What might the consequences be for aquatic life? How might denser ice affect small-scale bodies of water, like ponds and lakes? How might denser ice affect oceans? Could denser ice have far-reaching effects on the evolution of life?...Week 2: Unique properties of water: 2.3 Week...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs