317 search results
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...circuit TV as it is catapulted up to the top and down again to the bottom of the tower. About 9.3 seconds of freefall can be achieved. During those few seconds, within the falling test vehicle, the effects of gravity are reduced to a tiny fraction of their usual value, a condition known as ‘microgravity’. In the USA, at the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis...
View course Microgravity: living on the International Space Station
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...circuits in the brain, or systems, or areas. So I call them team leaders, and the first team is what we want, our values our beliefs, what we want to happen – so for example simply, I want to go into the sport, enjoy it, do my best and come away with my head held up thinking all I can do is my best. That’s one. The second one which I then coined the term ‘chimp’...
View course Exploring sport coaching and psychology
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...circuit that in turn determines the number of friends you have. What this allows you to do is to understand how other people are thinking, the state of their minds, as it were. It's the number of individuals whose minds you can handle in this kind of way that seems to set the limit on the total number of friends you have. So I'm sorry to have to tell you … well, there...
View course Childhood in the digital age
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson (Carmejane farm). [Described image] Figure 4 Drones used in livestock monitoring, IDELE research facility: CIRBEEF farm, Brittany, France Using drones on alternating days, relieves farmers from time demands while ensuring that continuous oversight of livestock is maintained. Preliminary results indicate that farmers saved 30% of their time when...
View course Developing business ideas for drone technologies
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...Le Pen in France and other far right leaders in Europe. Activity 1 Migration and demographic change Timing: Allow approximately 45 minutes Spend some time exploring the International Migration Statistics published by the Migration Policy Institute. Use the data available on that website to establish whether people are moving to your home country or moving away from it....
View course Looking globally: the future of education
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...circuits, I really miss going out with my friends’; ‘As long as I stop drinking at lunch time then I know I’ll be fine during training which starts at 7’.]...Session 4: Pelvic floor muscles: out of sight and often overlooked: 2 Introducing the pelvic floor and its muscles - [The image shows a top view of the pelvis with the muscles within the pelvis across the...
View course Supporting female performance in sport and fitness
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...circuit board the attributes of the specified elements of the system, for example, the degree of proficiency of musicians in an orchestra the number of interactions among the specified elements of the system, for example, the number of neuronal connections in the brain the degree of organisation inherent in the system, for example, the social arrangements in a beehive or...
View course Mastering systems thinking in practice
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...health problems Figures Figure 1: Maria Iglovikova/Shutterstock.com Figure 2: Olivier Le Moal/Shutterstock.com Figure 3: adapted from the determinants of health (Dahlgren and Whitehead, 1993; in Dahlgren and Whitehead, 2007) Figure 4: wutzkohphoto/Shutterstock.com Figure 5: ©The Open University – for full list only Figure 6: De Agostini Picture Library\Universal Images Group Figure 7: courtesy: artwork by ©Wilhelmina ......
View course Introduction to adolescent mental health
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs