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Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...world wide web and the computational power of machines led to statistical machine translation. This method used frequency and probability rather than rules or examples to produce translations. In 2006, Google Translate launched, bringing machine translation to anyone with an internet connection. Despite advancements, statistical methods had issues with fluency and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...world a better place. However, usually when people say that a problem needs ‘more leadership’ to resolve it, they don’t say what they mean by leadership – it’s treated as if we all share a common understanding of the word. But leadership is a slippery concept, and the truth is that it can mean wildly different things to different people. The great paradox of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...world record - The evening sunshine of Gothenburg, Sweden, in August 1995, was the setting in which British athlete, Jonathan Edwards, broke the world record in the triple jump. The record still stands at the time of writing (February 2017). In the next activity, you’ll get some insight into Jonathan’s circumstances in the build-up to his world record that night,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...world. What makes a language? We use language in all its forms – speech, writing, signing – all day, every day, but we don’t often think about what language is and how it works. This week you’ll have a chance to do just that. You’ll start by thinking about how words work and how they are made and you’ll consider whether something can be ‘putdownable’, just...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...world. The mudflats, too, support abundant life, and many of the species found here occur only in estuaries. It has been calculated that one square metre of mud can hold 1,200 worms, while 15,000 snails (Hydrobia ulvae) can graze on its surface. The saltmarsh forms a coastal ecosystem here with a rich variety of ecosystem salt-tolerant plants (Figure 4). Above, there is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...world. A notable exception is America in which their use of computers was at a far more advanced stage, with the technology improving at a greater rate there, than in it was in Britain. A new medium is born On the 27th January 1926 in Soho, London, John Logie Baird was making history by successfully demonstrating his primitive television system to a public audience....
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Article 15 mins
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...world’s best known and respected cameramen. He specialises in natural history, expeditions and science documentaries in some of the wildest and most remote places on our planet, particularly the polar zones working for the BBC, Discovery, National Geographic and many others, filming for series like The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Human Planet, Frozen Planet, Ocean Giants...
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Video 35 mins
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...world – something that the Russians had been referring to her as, which she then turned to her own advantage. All these images of strength she pulled together in response to the events she was saying and created a caricature, which wasn’t entirely flattering, but was very much to her advantage, and it was one that lives on to this day really. Presenter Women are...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr