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Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...Open University short courses for teachers and student teachers...Assessment in secondary geography: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: articulate what it means to make progress in geography outline a framework for assessing progress in geography outline the differences between formative and summative assessment explain some of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...Open Educational Resource Unit Teaching Secondary Modern Foreign Languages – Issues in Practise I'm Maria Luisa Perez Cavana and when designing this unit I drew on my many years in MFL education as a German and Spanish teacher as well as my experience of initial teacher education. Modern foreign languages is one of the most rewarding but also a difficult subject area to...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...open access): Caster Semenya: sport, categories and the creative role of ethics Kristin Hübner, writing at The Economic & Social Research Council blog, suggests that in half a century's time, we may have made those desicions: I argue that this case perfectly illustrates the importance of feminist sociology and of incorporating its research findings and theoretical...
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Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...opened the previous March in Hotwells, a run-down spa at the foot of the Avon Gorge outside Bristol. Originally developed to rival nearby Bath, Hotwells had dwindled to a downmarket cluster of cheap clinics and miracle-cure outfits offering hydrotherapy or mesmerism to those in the desperate last stages of consumption; but the Pneumatic Institution was a new arrival with...
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Article 5 mins
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...source of your anxiety and depression. It can be a friend or enemy so taking care of a healthy brain should be of the utmost importance. What does it mean to be healthy? The biomedical model of health is an approach that identifies health as the ‘absence of disease’ but does not consider psychological and social influences of health. However, being healthy is much...
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Article 5 mins
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...source, and help us find the solutions for social problems – some of which he would be gravely concerned to see continuing from the twentieth into the twenty-first century. W.E.B. Du Bois was born in 1868, only nine years after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859, when John Brown tried to capture the arsenal and free slaves in the town, and three years after...
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Article 10 mins
Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...sources at the end of this article to help improve these skills. Demonstrating empathy – Cox and Bachkirova (2007) stress the need for the coach to acknowledge and understand emotion as normal, working to understand coachee’s emotional reactions and difficulties, rather than ignoring or trying to change or control them (i.e., displaying emotional intelligence.)...
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Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...source, the overall reaction for aerobic respiration is: C6H12O6(s) + 6O2(g) = 6CO2(g) + 6H2O(l) + energy Six moles of oxygen are consumed for every mole of glucose, and a good supply of O2 is essential to enable our cells, and bodies, to function normally. Similarly most organisms, from the smallest single-cell amoeba to the largest elephant depend on supplies of O2 to...
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