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Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...free apps such as Trello and Remember the Milk, or paid apps such as Evernote, can aid the management of our to-do lists and prioritise tasks. A combination of a To-Do list and considering the impact of each task can enhance your time management skills a step further by creating a: Action Priority Matrix. Try scoring each task on your To-Do list out of 10 on two scales....
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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...free learning resources is the outcome of a partnership between academics from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The Open University in Scotland, and Scottish Union Learning, part of the Scottish Trade Union Congress. Work on this project commenced in 2021 and the primary aim of the collection was to contribute towards filling the gap in the recorded history of...
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Understanding Classical terms
History & The Arts

Understanding Classical terms

...Course Team...Who, where and when: getting to know Classical terms This first introductory article provides a brief overview to help people who may not be familiar with studying the Classical world feel more ‘at home’ with references to dates, names, places and terms. If you’re familiar with these aspects, use the menu below to take a look at the intermediate level...
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How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...course S103 Discovering Science And if you really want to go back to basics, explore the origins of the earth and life through course S269 Earth and Life If you would like to know more about dendrochronology then here are a few suggestions to help you find out more: Books you can read ’Tree Rings: Basic and Applications of Dendrochronology’, Fritz Hans Schweing Ruber,...
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Olde dessert recipes
History & The Arts

Olde dessert recipes

...course served up in one dish. The following is Elizabeth Raffald's recipe in her own words. It uses a syllabub topping made from the recipe above. To make a trifle Put three large macaroons in the middle of your dish, pour as much white wine over them as they will drink, then take a quart of cream, put in as much sugar as will make it sweet, nib your sugar upon the rind...
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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...courses and qualifications. ‘So how can we create assessment tasks for language learners in times of digital machine translation tools…’ Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský is leading a research team at The Open University, exploring the use of machine translation tools in language learning, teaching, and assessment. The team's research has revealed the key issues...
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Meet the ThrustWSH project team
Science, Maths & Technology

Meet the ThrustWSH project team

...course, not everything goes to plan. Finally, do you think if you were on the team you would spend a lot of time at a computer? Listen to Matthew Kear who works on the electronics to find out. Transcript. Why are we excited about super-cavitating hydrofoils? Aeroplanes can fly at high speeds but they move through air. ThrustWSH has to reach high speeds by flying in (or...
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The future of emojis
Languages

The future of emojis

...course, they’ve mostly been tied to the keyboard, but some dictation software already includes them, and this may well expand. KB: It would be remiss of me not to cite different means of digital text creation as potentially having an impact on emoji use. For example, the growth of voice notes as a means of communication may also negatively impact the popularity of emoji...
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