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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning

...Open University's Language courses and qualifications. If you are trying to learn a language in the age of readily available free online translation tools such as Google Translate or DeepL then you probably know that many teachers’ and learners’ attitudes to these tools are – to say the least – ambivalent. They are often considered an all-too-easy shortcut, or...
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Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...resources Find out more about studying Sport and Fitness with The Open University. Delve into OpenLearn’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic/Paralympic hub, created with academics from the OU Sport team. The website of British Wheelchair Basketball has information on the sport and how to get started in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. For information on wheelchair rugby...
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NILGA Learning Hub
OpenLearn Ireland

NILGA Learning Hub

This OpenLearn Hub, prepared in collaboration with the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA), features a collection of free online resources designed to support learning and skills development for councillors. [NILGA logo]
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A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses
Health, Sports & Psychology

A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses

...Open University's Nursing and Healthcare courses and qualifications. E-professionalism is "the attitudes and behaviours that reflect traditional professionalism paradigms but are manifested through digital media" (Kacznarcyzk et al., 2013). Professional bodies such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2016, United Kingdom) have specific guidance on the use of social...
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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...Open University. It has even given her ideas of ways of working and initiatives that could be implemented in her own team. Catherine’s volunteering doesn’t come with a significant time commitment; she estimates she spends a couple of hours every couple of months preparing for and attending meetings, with some additional activities on an ad hoc basis. The main...
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Exploring leadership for inclusion
Education & Development

Exploring leadership for inclusion

...educational, inclusive leadership. ...This set of four bespoke courses will enable leaders and aspiring leaders in a range of educational settings to consider different approaches to leading inclusive professional development. The courses will explore leading in an inclusive way and playing a leading role in inclusive contexts. It will then focus on effecting change and...
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Early childhood health promotion
Education & Development

Early childhood health promotion

...Education Conference, sharing insights from research into early childhood health promotion...This presentation shared the findings from research based on the Child Health Promotion: A Toolkit for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Practitioners. The Toolkit includes a 5 Step Programme as a model to guide practitioners in identifying and implementing a health...
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Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Background I am a white woman from a working-class background and have lived predominantly in Glasgow and the west of Scotland all my life. I have a strong sense of my own identity as a woman and the implications of this culturally in relation to political and social developments during the course of my life. At certain stages in...
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