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Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...de facto responsibility for the ongoing domestic care and welfare of the child but not to those ‘in loco parentis’ who take only a temporary or intermittent caring role. (p. 1) This is the definition of the parent we will use for this free course along with the term ‘sibling’, which can be applied to any children living in the family home whether or not they have...
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...De Troya in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Every effort has been made to contact...
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...de Boer in the Netherlands employ a low-price positioning strategy. Another strategy is to launch a low-price version of an existing product targeted at price-sensitive consumers. For example, Apple launched the Mac mini, a basic version of the Macintosh computer. With this low-priced machine Apple believes it can tempt people who have bought an iPod (and become fans of...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...des Weiteren haben wir, äh, Käse und verschiedene Wurstsorten. Dann haben wir verschiedene Sorten Jogurt – Pfirsichjogurt, Kirschjogurt und Erdbeerjogurt. Danach Marmeladen, drei verschiedene Sorten, und heut’ haben wir Erdbeer-, Ananas- und Aprikosenmarmelade. Interviewerin Und was trinken die meisten Gäste zum Frühstück? Frau Vogt Kaffee eigentlich oder Tee,...
Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...DE are each horizontal. The struts EA and DC are parallel. (a) Which of these are right angles? (b) Write down two angles that are equal to (c) Several of the triangles formed by the struts are similar (that is, they are the same shape). Write down all the triangles that are similar to ΔOAF. Answer 3 (a) All four of the given angles are right angles. (b) (which is the...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...de Atacama, a site of ongoing extraction of lithium from brine – in effect from water – in one of the driest parts of the world. Lithium is a key mineral in the development of lithium-ion batteries, which are central to the Global North’s ‘green transition.’ This extraction serves as an example of the ways in which the Global North’s solutions to the climate...
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...de Graaf, Nicolaas Witsen Project, Netherlands. Who or what do you think is depicted in this picture? Would you think that shamans were humans or some mythical creatures based on this image? Discussion The presence of animal claws, furry skin and reindeer horns all suggest that shamans were not really humans. This depiction of an Evenki shaman was not produced with the...
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...de-stress and unwind, but that has been taken away from him temporarily and he doesn’t like it. Travis is desperate to get back to his normal gym routine and just wants his shoulder injury to get better as soon as possible. He thinks it is unfair that he has sustained the injury, particularly when he sees other people exercising. He also worries about how strong he will...