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Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...technology (and indeed has helped accelerate both), the wider roots of English as a world language lie much further in the past. Some point to the first English colonies in Wales and Ireland in the 12th century, or to the late 17th century when English-speaking settlements were established in North America and the slave trade brought cheap labour from Africa. But it was...
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Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why

...Education campaigns that, for example, feature fatal or serious collisions caused by a distracted driver can actually play into these biases. Such campaigns appear to confirm drivers’ belief that they can handle it, while these other ‘inferior’ drivers could not. For these over-confident drivers, perhaps the only deterrent would be the threat of enforcement. But in...
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What does Moon music sound like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does Moon music sound like?

...technology and science are merging together to create an art form known as 'SciArt'. One of the benefits of SciArt is sharing scientific research to a wider audience. The Earth’s Reflection is a SciArt collaboration between The Open University’s Dr Mahesh Anand, a Reader in Planetary Science and Exploration and Yazz Ahmed, a trumpet and flugelhorn player of British...
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Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms
Education & Development

Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms

...L., Petrou, M., and Scanlon, E (2013), The Talk Factory: Supporting 'exploratory talk' around an Interactive Whiteboard in primary school science, Technology, Pedagogy and Education.22 (1) pp. 89-102. MILLER, S., 2016. How Literature Discussion Shapes Thinking: Vygotsky's Educational Practice in Cultural Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 289-316....
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The Future of Language
Languages

The Future of Language

...technologies, there’s been speculation in some places that language as we know it may become obsolete in the near future!...This short animation examines how social and technological changes are likely to transform the way we communicate over the coming decades. Transcript Will machine translation make learning a foreign language redundant? Will a mixture of...
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How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?

...technology that uses statistics in a revolutionary new way. No matter whether you speak English or Urdu, Waloon or Waziri, Portuguese or Persian, the roots of your language are the same. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the mother tongue – shared by several hundred contemporary languages, as well as many now extinct, and spoken by people who lived from about 6,000 to 3,500...
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Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...technology; for example, affordability, fear of using technology or personal circumstances. This is why the NHS Digital Health organisation in England and the Scottish and Welsh government have also developed initiatives to increase accessibility and to empower people to feel included in decisions about their health and wellbeing. This is explored in the context of a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?
Society, Politics & Law

Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?

...technology for over 20 years. For much of this period, the international community has been trying to stop that from happening. My research on how states illegally obtain missile technologies and my experience conducting outreach related to U.N. sanctions give me some insight into the methods North Korea used to make illicit procurements and the limitations in using...
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