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Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...Statistics show approaches using extrinsic motivation are not effective for all students (DfE, 2013). Ideally children should be intrinsically motivated to learn, so that they do something, such as reading, for its own sake and because they want to, not just for reward (Kohn, 1999). Activity 8 Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Read the edited extract below on alternatives to...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...statistical prediction model...Week 1: What is resilience?: 2.3 Identifying additional stress factors - Although Holmes and Rahe identified a range of stress factors, there are many other issues that can cause stress in people’s lives. Activity 4 Lightening the load Timing: Allow about 10 minutes a.Are there other stress factors in your life that Holmes and Rahe...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...Statistics at the Open University. If you feel you might benefit from some extra help with algebra you may like to study another free OpenLearn course, Introduction to algebra, an adapted extract from the Open University module MU123 Discovering mathematics. If you feel you are ready to move on but don’t have time to study a full Open University module at this time, you...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...Statistics (2010) an average male in England weighs 83.6kg and an average woman in England weighs 70.2kg therefore a person weighing 70 kg has 42 litres of water. Most of this fluid is in the cells (about 65%). Water can move easily in and out of cells, so it can go wherever it is needed. Different parts of the body have different concentrations of fluid. This is related...
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...statistics that reinforce this feeling. For example in July 2017, a headline read ‘New report shows just 100 companies are source of over 70% of emissions’ (CDP, 2017). Activity 5 Feelings about climate change Timing: Allow about 5 minutes When you ask yourself what can you do to support action against climate change, what feelings accompany your thinking? Write down...
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...Statistics, 2011). It was largely due to a 29% increase in admissions of children aged under 15 with non-hepatitis, non-influenza viral infections, and it confirms a rising trend. This category of hospital admissions has risen by 84% in England since 2006–2007...Public Health Approaches to Infectious Disease: 1.1 Acute respiratory infections - Influenza, pneumonia and...
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...statistics and readings presented in this section is to demonstrate the complex landscape in which we must manage the relationships which are at the heart of successful inclusion. If we wish to lead change we cannot begin where people are not: we have to accept that many people feel they do not have the time, space and skills to start working in new ways. We have to begin...
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...statistics are often unable to deliver. They also show that there are different, often contradictory, stories and interpretations of events in the aftermath of the flooding. Through these we can begin to get some idea of the political controversies that Katrina sparked. These conflicting accounts were also played out on the web-based alternative media and in television...