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Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...concept in sport and fitness as it is motivation which gives us the push to either doing what has to be done or pushing ourselves harder and harder to achieve greater things. That said, it’s an easy thing to mention but a harder thing to understand. For example, why on some days are we full of energy and bursting to get things done while on other days we will do...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...concept of a habitable zone. This is a region within a planetary, stellar or galactic system where conditions are sufficiently suitable and stable to allow life to arise. A habitable zone is often taken to mean a place where liquid water can exist. The blue band in the image above is the region within a planetary system where water would be liquid on the planet’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...concepts developed by Chris Argyris and Donald Schön (1976), in the late 1970s. Single-loop learning is a particular type of organizational learning process. When operating with single group learning, people, organizations or groups modify their actions according to the difference between expected and reached outcomes. For example, during the pandemic many pupils were...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...concepts such as network security, cryptography, identity theft and risk management. This course has been developed by The Open University with support from the UK Government's National Cyber Security Programme and can be accessed free of charge. Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...concept of sound and be introduced to the physics behind travelling pressure waves as the physical manifestation of sound. You will also learn about the subjective perception of pitch and loudness, in particular their relationship to frequency and amplitude. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 2 study in Technology http://www.open.ac.uk/ courses/ find/...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...concepts, using water as the main illustration. Much of the course is devoted to exploring the smallest water particle - a water molecule - what it is and how it gives rise to the particular properties of water. The course also explains powers of ten and scientific notation, which are a convenient way of expressing both very large and very small numbers. It is a good...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...concept in telecommunications is the sine wave and also the cosine wave. What are these? HELEN DONELAN Oh, well, sine and cosine waves are really the same as each other. They’re a type of smooth, repeating waveform. And they will generally represent the way many natural phenomena vary in time and space. They have this characteristic smooth undulating shape which repeats...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...concepts such as emotion. It will also explore the experiences of family members when they have little information about their child’s condition. You will finish this section by thinking about advocacy and self-advocacy of young people with a learning disability. Before you explore the experiences related to having a child diagnosed with a learning disability, you will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs