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Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...et al., 2023). This means viewing any form of neurodivergence as something different from what society describes as normal experiences (neurotypical), therefore that individual is ‘missing’ something in how their brain works or processes information. Consequently, these experiences are compared with what might be termed normal experiences which results in not only...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...adaptations, which are called assistive or enabling devices or technology. Sometimes these are adaptations to the operating system of the device, sometimes they are software solutions, and sometimes they are additional devices used in conjunction with the computing technology. In some countries there are schemes whereby students can receive financial support to buy...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...et al., 2019). They showed how they could apply frameworks for thinking about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), originally written for Higher Education settings paper (Warwick, 2016; Winter et al., 2015), to a wide range of their own school-age settings. The consensus was: EfS needs to become part of an intended ‘hidden’ curriculum, not a bolt-on EfS should...
Creu cysylltiadau mewn sgyrsiau diwedd oes: awgrymiadau hanfodol i weithwyr proffesiynol
Health, Sports & Psychology

Creu cysylltiadau mewn sgyrsiau diwedd oes: awgrymiadau hanfodol i weithwyr proffesiynol

...et al., 2023). Mae prosiect cydweithredol rhyngwladol dan arweiniad academyddion o’r Iseldiroedd a’r DU wedi defnyddio canfyddiadau ymchwil amlddisgyblaethol i ystyried y modd y gall gweithwyr proffesiynol iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol ymdrin â dewisiadau cyfathrebu cleifion. Ceir tair strategaeth hollbwysig a all gynorthwyo yn hyn o beth: Dylid pennu dewis y claf ar...
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...adapted extract from the Open University course BG020 Commercial awareness...Commercial awareness: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate what an organisation exists to do: the value it creates appreciate a personal position within the organisation and how others relate to it relate the concept of a value chain to a personal...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...adaptation to everyday events rather than unusual ones, and emerges from ordinary human capabilities, relationships and other internal and external resources. Ann Masten, a research expert in this area calls it ‘ordinary magic’. It is a quality and a process that can be enhanced and developed which is good news for social workers, who are typically required to manage...
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...adapted extract from the Open University course S295 The biology of survival. Figure 1 Migration word cloud...Migration: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe some of the migratory journeys made by birds and other animals explain the process of adaptation by natural selection and how this results in evolution describe what is...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
A reader's guide to Ulysses
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Ulysses

...adaptations. [Statue of James Joyce in Trieste] James Joyce depicted in a Trieste statue When is Bloomsday - and what is it exactly? The ten-year quest described in Homer's text is telescoped into the events of a single day, 16th June 1904 – a special one for the author, because it was the anniversary of his first date with Nora Barnacle. She provided the inspiration...