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Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...open a new window or tab so you can easily return without having to use the back button in your browser. You can do this by holding down the ‘CTRL’ key (or CMD on a Mac) and left clicking the mouse button; or right click and ‘open in new tab’. Bing DeepL Google Translate Systran Activity 1 Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes Translate into English one of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial
Society, Politics & Law

Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial

...Open University's Law courses. From CSI to Law and Order, Line of Duty and Midsomer Murders, there is huge public fascination with crime and the criminal justice system. Especially when things come to a climactic ending and jurors decide on a defendent’s fate. But how much do jurors get it wrong? Will the jury convict an innocent person, or might they free a guilty...
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Article 5 mins
Linear programming – the basic ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Linear programming – the basic ideas

...Open University course M373 Optimization, a third level applied mathematics course that will interest you if you need to create mathematical models or if you use numerical software in industry, science, commerce or research. It’s concerned with the skills needed to represent real optimization problems as mathematical models, and with techniques used in numerical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The Passing of the New: Bowie and Boulez
History & The Arts

The Passing of the New: Bowie and Boulez

...opening days of the 2016 New Year saw the passing of perhaps the greatest musical figure of the late twentieth century. No, not David Bowie. Or at least, not just David Bowie. That sentence could be written, with equal truth, of the French experimental composer Pierre Boulez, who died aged 90 on 6 January. Bowie’s death just four days later creates a weird and...
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Article 5 mins
Why going dairy-free can hit your iodine levels
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why going dairy-free can hit your iodine levels

...source of iodine in many diets, and an important iodine source in many countries. However, our latest research found that the iodine concentration of most alternatives to cows’ milk – such as soy and almond “milk” – is very low. This matters because deficiency of iodine, especially during pregnancy, affects brain development and is linked to lower intelligence....
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Article 5 mins
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...Source: The Guardian, 4 November 1999, p.1; image produced by getmapping.com PLC) During 1999 The Millennium Mapping company launched a project that planned to change the way we looked at and record the UK. The intention was to take imagery of the entire country thus producing an immediate snapshot of life in the new Millennium. In many ways this imitated the Domesday...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SDT306 Environment: responding to change...Eating for the environment: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the diversity of ingredients on dinner plates from around the world list the ingredients of a dinner plate and place them on the taxonomic tree...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differential equations

...Open University module MST125 Essential mathematics 2. The module builds on mathematical ideas introduced in MST124 Essential mathematics 1, covering a wide range of topics from different areas of mathematics. The practical application to problems provides a firm foundation for further studies in mathematics and other mathematically rich subjects such as physics and...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs