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Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...central to our understanding of training and recovery. The video provides a nice summary of this and states that training provides a stimulus which overloads the body, and through recovery the body adapts and makes training gains (e.g. gets stronger). Recovery can therefore be seen to be an essential part of the process of adaptation to training. Training sessions can be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...central starting points for those who research crimes of the powerful is the importance of first examining and then questioning dominant ideologies. ‘Dominant ideologies’ can be defined as ‘shared ideas or beliefs which serve to justify the interests of dominant groups’ (Giddens, 1997, p. 583). Some examples of ‘types’ of ideologies might include socialist,...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...central government engineering marketing technology voluntary and charitable sector. Activity 3 Translation mishaps Timing: You should allow 20 minutes Have a look at the notices below and see if you can work out what each one is trying to say. As a native speaker, you may find them amusing because of the incorrect grammar. ‘It is forbitten to steal hotel towels please....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...central to the ideology and practice of SHRM. But what does it mean to be engaged in work? How can engagement be encouraged? How does the reality of working conditions affect these attempts? To what extent does the structure of management and ownership in organisations affect the prospects of employee engagement? In this free course we explore these questions though three...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...Central Asia, children constitute only 16 per cent of the overall number of victims. The majority of victims in Europe and Central Asia are adults (84 per cent). Question 3 Analyse the chart below. Who are the perpetrators of THB? Have you noticed anything surprising in the statistics on perpetrators? [Described image] Figure 8 Shares of persons convicted of trafficking...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...central throughout life. This free course gives an introduction to this exciting area of contemporary study. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E219 Psychology of childhood and youth...Attachment in the early years: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe attachment classifications and how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...système de financement des films grand public 4. thèmes abordés dans les films d’art et d’essai 5. les réalisateurs marseillais 6. l’université d’Aix-Marseille 7. l’université populaire d’Aubagne 8. exemples de sujets de société et d’actualité 9. le coût de production d’un film d’art et d’essai a. 1. caractéristiques des cinémas d’art et...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...central female superheroes (like the Netflix series, Jessica Jones), and all-female cast superhero movies (as with the new Ghostbusters film), explicit gay/lesbian characters (like Xena: Warrior Princess), men playing more feminine characters and women more masculine ones, and explicitly trans and non-binary characters and actors in both leading and supporting roles....
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Article 15 mins