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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.)...
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...
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...opening up those areas of expertise, so there’s more collaboration and that that cascades, that technology, that data gathering expertise can all be put to better use for nature conservation and also the equipment and the materials can be given to people on the ground to help them manage that human/nature interaction much better and address some of the really big issues...
Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...Open University. Nigel: For more information about Ethics Bites, and about the Open University, go to Open2.net. David: In 1975, Animal Liberation was published: in hindsight, a seminal work of philosophy, marking the birth of the modern animal rights movement – though its author spoke not of rights per se, but, as a utilitarian, in terms, put crudely, of maximising...
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...Open University course E209 Developing subject knowledge for the primary years, relevant to anyone interested in the education of 3 to 11 year old children...Primary science: supporting children’s learning: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: evaluate and advance science subject knowledge reflect upon some key scientific concepts and...
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L193 Rundblick: beginners' German...Beginners' German: Food and drink: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: speak about personal preferences with regard to food and drink order and pay for food and drink in a restaurant use the verbs essen and trinken demonstrate an...
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Peter Lloyd © The Open University Course image: Steve Jurvetson in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Figures 1 and 3: © Peter Lloyd Figure 2: © Steven May / Alamy; WWD / Conde Nast / Corbis; Tom Mackie / Alamy Figures 7, 11, 12, 14b, 18 and 22: © Nicole Schadewitz Figures...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...source material after source material of the collapse in biodiversity and the collapse in processes in the natural world. In other words, it is becoming a bigger and bigger omnipresent story all over the world and I’m not just talking about the recent release of the World Wildlife Fund report on biodiversity, I’m talking about sources from lots and lots of different...