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Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...physical fitness, there has never been a better time to learn more about sport. Many of us take for granted what we know about sport, whether we participate or spectate. But have you ever thought about delving deeper, to find out more about the sport you follow in particular and how it fits into ideas about sport more generally? This course is the ideal place to start....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...physical manifestations of ‘the light of God’. To justify the enslavement and inhumane exploitation of Black people, enslavers dehumanised them, including referring to their hair as ‘woolly’ or with other animalistic terms (which is why asking to touch a Black person’s hair is so egregious), or simply shaving it all off. This meant that tightly coiled tresses...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...physically inactive, and this can have a negative impact on a person’s health. In this free course, Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?, you will be encouraged to consider the impact of social, cultural, political and economic factors that influence obesity in adulthood. You will also investigate whether a focus on lifestyles and a person’s behaviours...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...physics of how the bridge stands up but wouldn't have had the confidence to do it. High powered computers have given us that confidence by allowing us to test our calculations. The structure is so fine that, when people stand on the bridge, they'll feel as if they're hovering over the water.’ The importance of the bridge to tourism was emphasised by Lord Foster: ‘When...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...physical changes in the surface of our planet are also beginning to take place. Since the 1980s, intensive research by climate scientists collaborating internationally has built up a picture of the earth's weather systems being transformed by human activities. These changes are often referred to, in a kind of shorthand, as ‘global warming’. The prospect of global...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...physical states (such as temperature or pressure) or events (such as a particular change in physical state) and relay the information to computers. I thought perhaps this sensing and relaying of data might be done automatically, and/or the process might trigger some automatic response. To me, it seemed clear from the abstract that the author would be looking at four main...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...Physical technical systems - This is the most tangible part of a capability. The machines, databases and software acquired or developed over time are probably the only part of a capability that does not disappear once an organisation’s employees leave a building. The physical system is made up of many widely available machines, but some machines may have undergone...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...physical and mental pain. It is because of this diversity of purpose that building employee engagement is problematic. Managers must make strategic choices about how to engage employees in the hope of winning their commitment and encouraging them to expend discretionary effort in their work. But it is important to recognise that any such interventions will depend on an...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs