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English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...become the global force it is today? This free course, English in the world today, explores the status of the language and its worldwide diversity. It looks at how social and political factors influence people's attitudes towards it, and at the relationship between one's linguistic heritage and sense of identity...How did English become the global force it is today? This...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...becomes problematic when it interferes with some aspect of everyday life, including; the ability to learn, to feel, express and manage a range of positive and negative emotions, the ability to form and maintain good relationships with others and to manage change and uncertainty (Mental Health Foundation, 2020). In the opening audio you heard a parent describe some of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...OU students who helped to develop the Changemakers project upon which this course is partly based. Thank you to the UK Parliament Week team for helping to develop the original Changemakers guide. Thank you to the Political Studies Association for helping to fund the original Changemakers guide. Thank you to OU Scotland, OU Wales and OU Ireland for commenting...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...students attending selective schools can benefit from the experience, average performance across all students in areas served by such schools is not enhanced. The chancellor also announced a long overdue and welcome tidying up of vocational and technical qualifications, replacing more than 13,000 qualifications by some 15 new T levels. Here the devil will be in the detail...
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Article 5 mins
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...become more confident with learning the language. Video 2 You may wish to print out the Instructions on how to enable Chinese font and type characters for your own reference. Note that Video 1 and the instructions about enabling Chinese fonts for PC were based on Windows 10. For Windows 11, see Video 3 below. Please note, to revert back to an English (or your primary...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...OU Profile. [An image of Olly Richards] Olly Richards Olly Richards is a polyglot who speaks eight languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic and Cantonese) and is the founder of I Will Teach You A Language, a website that provides study hacks and mindtools for language learners. [An image of Fernando Rosell-Aguilar] Fernando Rosell-Aguilar...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
OpenLearn Champions Hub | Hafan Hyrwyddwyr OpenLearn old
Education & Development

OpenLearn Champions Hub | Hafan Hyrwyddwyr OpenLearn old

...OU champions workbook] Download the guide English In recognition of the 3rd anniversary of our Champions Programme, we’ve reached out to our Champions and learners to create a video to celebrate their achievements. Well done and congratulations to everyone who has worked on the programme so far. Cymraeg I gydnabod trydydd pen-blwydd ein Rhaglen Hyrwyddwyr, rydym wedi...
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Article 10 mins
Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...OU team’s research has an explicit focus on how ethnicity, gender and social class intersect in producing educational disadvantage. In examining teachers’ perceptions and practices as well as children’s own experiences of reading pedagogy, the team hope to offer more nuanced understandings of disengagement and suggest possible ways forward with long term goals in...
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Article 10 mins