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Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...communication between a coach and neurodivergent athlete is examined, alongside the research linking neurodiversity and mental health. [Described image] By the end of this week, you should be able to: explain the concept of neurodiversity and define a range of neurodiverse conditions understand what influences communication between individuals with different neurotypes...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...communities are for holidays and carnivals, rather than being serious working economies. Ensure the pictures are related to the material they illustrate. Using pictures of kente cloth on a poster about textiles would be inclusive; using a photo of a woman in Ghanaian dress to illustrate a poster on maths, just to raise the number of pictures of black and minority ethnic...
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Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...communicate privately and efficiently together. You have a list of class mates you want to invite to the Facebook group and you have decided to call the group ‘K219 Group A’. Click on the type of group you think might work best. Public Group Closed Group Secret Group a. Public Group b. Closed Group c. Secret Group The correct answer is c. Discussion Public Group: This...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...Communication Efficient (time bound) meetings Open-ended discussion and active problem-solving Effectiveness Indirectly through their influence on others Direct assessment of the collective work products Work style Groups discuss, delegate and then do the work individually Teams discuss, decide and delegate but do the work together The distinctions in Table 1 may be...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...Communities, 2005, p. 46) While on a more technical level this definition might be suitable, a simpler and much more effective definition of innovation was suggested by Ekvall (1997) who asserted that at its simplest, innovation is really just: a creative idea that has been brought to application. (Ekvall, 1997, p. 195). The ‘creative idea’ might involve inventing a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...communities. JANICE ANSINE In October 2009, six-year-old Katie from Berkshire, England, saw an unusual furry moth on her windowsill at home. Curious to find out what it was, she showed it to her dad who helped her take a photo and posted it on the then new citizen sized platform, ispotnature.org. Within 24 hours, the iSpot online community confirmed it to be the are the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...Communication technologies - With the Industrial Revolution the idea of 'news' developed rapidly, and these days most people in the UK and other developed countries have concept of 'the news'. We expect to be kept up to date with the news through various sources, and to satisfy this expectation we have the businesses of newsgathering and dissemination of news. In this...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...communities, to inadequate hygiene in the high-tech environments of modern hospitals (Figure 4). The impact of infectious diseases is therefore unequally distributed around the world, not only between countries, but also between individuals and groups within the same population. Figure 4 Infectious diseases are a threat everywhere: (a) A shanty settlement without piped...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs