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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...et al’s chapter on MOOCs draws attention to the ‘labour iceberg’ of MOOC delivery and the way the MOOC marketplace may lead to some voices, content and forms of knowledge being privileged over others. These perspectives draw further attention to the complexities of work within the neoliberal university context. Taken together, the overall direction of The Digital...
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How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...et al (2020) The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care-social-work/the-effects-self-isolation-and-lack-physical-activity-on-carers This work was undertaken by The National Guideline Alliance which received funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. The...
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What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology

...et al., 2021). A combination of techniques (known collectively as psychological skills training) that are often drawn on by sports psychologists may help commercial pilots maintain - or improve - their performance. Training to excel in any sport and learning to become a pilot both require copious amounts of time, effort, focus, and motivation. International travel is an...
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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...et al., 2020). Effective research dissemination is critical then, particularly when viewed through the lens of Black feminist theory, as it emphasises the role of research participants as both subjects and agents of knowledge creation (Collins, 2000). Bridging the gap between discourse and practice In the Mothering at the Margins study, we aim to use our positions to not...
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5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...et al, 2009). Such improvements might directly enable the person with dementia to become mobile and carry out day-to-day activities including self-care independently or with little assistance. 2. Exercise is stimulation – outdoor & company is the best [senior man walking on the beach] When living with dementia, we need as much stimulation as possible. Outdoor exercise...
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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...et al., 2011). Figure 2 The footprint as a powerful image of treading on or occupying the Earth. A UK individual’s carbon footprint arises mainly from home energy use and personal travel, including flights, and from consumption of food, goods and services...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth: 1.3 Individual and household carbon footprints - There are different...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...Profile, Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press. You can now go to Week 3...Week 2: Working with volunteers: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Julie Charlesworth. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see FAQs), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence . Figure 1:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...et al., 1992). Medical journals were founded in rather smaller numbers in Europe at the same time – in France, Germany and Belgium, where the Scalpel (surely in homage to Wakley's Lancet) appeared. Even in Russia, twenty-three new journals were established around the middle of the century. Nineteenth-century medicine had a form and character that was unique to its time....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs