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Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...work for you in your own learning and teaching of a language. The third session focuses on learning grammar and practising translation and presents you with different sample activities in French, German, Spanish and English to support your learning and teaching in these areas with OMT. Session 4 draws this course to a conclusion by demonstrating when and how OMT can be...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...work life and your social life. Because talking to other people is part of everyday life, you may feel that you naturally possess these skills. In this course you will discover that a little psychological knowledge about interactions will help you to be able to plan and prepare for conversations in a way that will enable you to become an even more skilled communicator....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...work ahead sometimes or need to catch up, this is fine – there is a lot of flexibility built into the structure of the course. The course is aimed at a postgraduate, Masters level, with the expectation of approximately 16 hours of study each week. Martin Weller, on whose materials much of this course is based, says that The Open University struck it lucky with its name....
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...work of art that, at heart, is a computer. You will also explore how computers are connected together to achieve even more than when working alone...This free course, An introduction to computers and computer systems, challenges how we view computers through the examples of processors in kitchen scales and digital cameras, as well as examining the work of art that, at...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...worked so hard and then I had nothing to show for it. I missed training, I missed my training group, and most importantly I missed being an athlete. I felt empty. (Lois, sprinter) I was under a lot stress at work before I got injured and I’m sure that was a contributing factor to the injury happening. I also found being injured and not being able to go to the gym so...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...work in the UK: nature and biodiversity climate change and decarbonisation waste and pollution reduction. [Described image] Figure 1 Nature and biodiversity is identified as a key area of work for ‘green skills’ Deloitte (2022) suggests that education has a key part to play in enabling green skills through: careers advice about green skills apprenticeships with a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...work just as well as far as the rhythm or music of the line is concerned, but ‘ash’ has extra connotations of greyness, of something burnt out, dead, finished (‘ashes to ashes’, too, perhaps?), all of which contribute to the mood that Hardy conveys in a way that ‘oak’ or ‘elm’ wouldn't. To return to my original question then, ‘what is the point of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...work. You might want to record useful words. The accounting cycle: students then and now January 2009 – Compared with the students in the 1970s, today’s accounting students are uneducated and unfit for a college education. [1] I have been teaching full time for over thirty years. During that span of time, one sees many, many students, and it amazes me how different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs