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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...sang of his most famous creation, Ziggy Stardust in 1972. This might explain why the extra-terrestrial (whether human or alien) was an abiding metaphor he returned to from the early days of Major Tom in the song Space Oddity (1969) through his re-appearance in Pierrot costume on Ashes to Ashes (1980) and most recent embodiment in the video to his latest single Blackstar...
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Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...et al., 1993). The scene is a typical household kitchen. On the kitchen counter is a plate of biscuits. Lily is in the kitchen. Lily is hungry and can see the biscuits. Which of these assumptions, if any, do you think are reasonable to make: Lily likes eating biscuits Lily would be happy if she ate the biscuits Lily would be unhappy if she could not eat the biscuits Lily...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...doubling the vowel signs ( ـٍ ، ـٌ ، ـً ). These vowels are used for an indefinite noun or adjective for example: قَلَمٌ a pen (a definite noun would translate to “the pen”). It also comes with the last letter of the word. The pronunciation of these vowels is: in - un or an. Alif letter should be added to the end of the word when the tanwīn is double...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...et al. (2021) this figure is around 34%. The menstrual cycle with its fluctuating hormones creates physiological differences throughout its course so research that will benefit females needs to take these changes into consideration. But it makes research more expensive and time consuming. Many mixed research studies control this by studying females when their hormones are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...et al. (2002) used the Evett and Humphreys (1981) technique, but with modifications. As in the earlier study, they showed a potential prime (e.g. ‘lion’), followed by a hard-to-see masked target (e.g. ‘tiger’). However, there were two changes in this study. First, the priming word could be displayed either for a very short time, so that it was allegedly...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...Doubling and halving are easy for most people, so make use of these tactics: doubling and doubling again is the same as multiplying by 4 doubling and doubling and doubling again is the same as multiplying by 8. Use the inverse of doubling (i.e. the opposite of doubling) which is halving: halving is the same as ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...et al., 2004). One of the leading exponents of this emerging field of behavioural finance, Werner de Bondt, suggests that: For at least forty years psychologists have amassed evidence that economic man is very unlike a real man and that reason – for now, defined by the principles that underlie expected utility theory, Bayesian learning and rational expectations – is...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...et al., 2017). It stands to reason that children who enjoy reading tend to read more and thus become better at reading, yet choosing to read also impacts on children’s wider educational attainment. For example, Reading for Pleasure is positively associated with comprehension, grammar and wider vocabulary (Sullivan and Brown, 2015). In addition, it was found in one study...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs