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The Future of Language
Languages

The Future of Language

...social and technological changes are likely to transform the way we communicate over the coming decades. Transcript Will machine translation make learning a foreign language redundant? Will a mixture of brain-computer interfaces and artificial intelligence mean that we’ll soon be able to talk to each other via computer-enabled technology? And what will all this mean for...
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PodMag October 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag October 2016

...Social Sciences and Arts (FASS) at The Open University...This edition of the PodMag focuses on some exciting new modules currently in development. We hear from Paul Lawrence about the innovative new Level 2 History module on the birth of modern Britain, Helen Kaye talks about the new 3rd level Psychology module where students can undertake their own research, and Catriona...
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Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...work or from the work/volunteering in a primary setting? This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E103 Learning and teaching in the primary years....Supporting children’s learning in primary education today: Introduction - Welcome to this free course, Supporting children’s learning in primary education today. [Described image] Figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...social arrangements in a similar way. They also argue that the UK could now relinquish its membership without losing any of the advantages of the Single Market. The EU would damage its own living standards, as well as ours, if it put up new barriers against a departing member state, especially its second largest. By joining the European Economic Area (EEA), non-members...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...social order (Blagg, 2008). The UK In the UK, figures available from the Ministry of Justice for 2008/09 show that within the criminal justice system ‘substantial differences continue to exist in the experiences of people from BME groups compared with people from a White background’. It is worth looking at some examples taken from the report in a little more detail:...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...working environment. They include your job, your organisation, and the people you work with. Then you will need to diagnose what you might do to improve your own managerial performance, and take a first step to improve it. This free course, Managing and managing people, is an adapted extract from the Open University course B628 Managing 1: organisations and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...work on your own project. You want to advance your career in psychology. You want to investigate a topic or question that interests you. You want to build on experience and expertise that you’ve already gained, in your work or other activities (for instance, as a community volunteer). Although all of these are good reasons for doing a PhD, each raises some issues that...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?
Digital & Computing

How is the internet helping ensure parliamentary accountability in Bangladesh?

...social media or other forms of instant communication, making it difficult for common people to reach out to them. A new platform containing all the information of the members of parliament and different means for communication with them is giving Bangladeshis the option of contacting their local elected representatives, however. Some lawmakers have already begun...
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