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Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...et al. (2014) remind us that there can often be much higher concentrations of bacteria within an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) setting than outside and of course world events such as the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has led to a renewed interest in using the outdoors as a protective factor against spreading disease. Research offers evidence in several areas...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...motives are exogenous and the point is to work out the optimal bluffing strategies and credible threats, given available information. Our task was different: it was to persuade the “other” side to change their motivation vis-à-vis Greece. I represented a small, suffering nation in its sixth straight year of deep recession. Bluffing with our people’s fate would be...
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Article 10 mins
The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...motivations of the festival was concern about the gulf between schools and their local communities and the adverse effect this had on the aspirations and academic achievement of children of African Caribbean heritage. The festival programmes regularly quoted Amilcar Cabral, Guinean Pan-Africanist: “Our children are the flowers of our struggle and the principal reason...
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Video 15 mins
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...motivate people and coordinate their efforts to achieve optimum performance. However, in most settings managers do not control people in the way that they can control the other resources that they need to get their work done. Rather, managers are dependent on people. Managers’ effectiveness is limited by the qualities, abilities and willingness of these people. If we...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...et al. (2018) found that swimming training with a parachute (speed resistance) improved swimming speed. Speed training can be progressed by increasing the volume (the demand that the athlete places on their body), load (resist movement or increase height in plyometrics) or frequency (number of sessions per week) of training. Speed resistance training, as with the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...et al., 2005). Findings by Wang (2001) indicate that people in the US tend to recall events and experiences from a slightly younger age than people in China. The age of the earliest reported memory for participants in the US was around 42 months, whereas in China it was 47.5 months. This, of course, does not mean that people in the US have better memories. It merely means...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...motivation and engagement (Connolly et al., 2012), promote critical thinking skills, collaboration and communication skills, and problem-solving skills (Qian and Clark, 2016). Computers and the internet Computers are widely used by children and teenagers both at home and at school. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which runs the Programme...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...et al., 2004, p. 10) that such assessment becomes assessment for learning. Assess the effectiveness of their teaching. As well as assessing students’ learning, teachers must also assess their own actions. Assessment provides evidence about the effectiveness of the decisions that teachers take, so that they can modify their actions accordingly. Assessing students’...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs