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Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...concepts. Prolonged, long-term stress is a key factor in burnout with varied stress sources possible: internal (to an individual), external and/or physical. Overtraining is often a precursor to burnout. Numerous other factors may also contribute to burnout. In the next session, you will discover the varied perspectives researchers have used to look at burnout and how it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...concept ‘good academic practice’ you understand, and where you could improve. If you think you already understand what this phrase means, and the skills it involves, you’ll be able to take the quiz now and identify the areas you need to brush up. Once you’ve studied these areas you can then retake the quiz to confirm that you now understand them. If you’re new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...concept. English, Kiswahili and Japanese are concrete entities. They have their own specific histories and are used by particular communities who nearly always have a strong relationship with ‘their’ language. In Section 1, you looked at language as a general faculty of humankind. Something that’s innate to people in New Zealand, Tanzania or Japan, and everywhere...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...concepts, ideas and debates. It adopts a broad definition of innovation and subscribes to the view that a fundamental feature of any innovation process is that it results in gaining value...Develop a critical understanding of technological innovation and management. This free course, Technology, innovation and management, will provide you with an overview and introduction...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...concepts like repetition, serendipity and modularity. The algorithmic wallpaper you create will allow you to demonstrate your newfound design skills and make something beautiful for your home...Unleash your creativity and discover the fun of designing with code in this free OpenLearn course, Algorithmic Design. In this hands-on course, you’ll learn to think...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...concept of diagramming and, the concept of drawing rich pictures in particular. Don't attempt to tackle the task in one long session. You may get more out of it if you take it in two blocks of time, perhaps on consecutive evenings. Activity 10 Read the case study ‘Financial support for the children of lone parents’ by Joyce Fortune (attached below) and draw a rich...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...concepts into a wider scientific and social context. If this incorporation will continue to take place over the next 50 years, we might experience a utopia in which we would not encounter another case like Semenya’s again – or, at least, deal with it differently. By 2065, the political and social implications of categories such as gender and sex might in fact have...
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Video 10 mins
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...concept resulted in fifty-two cast stainless steel ingots, located in this particular special place in Hyde Park, each of these ingots representing a life lost. Now these stainless steel castings are arranged into four clusters, with the number of each life lost at each place forming the numbers of the clusters. And in turn blending those clusters together to form a...
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Article 15 mins