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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching

...out more about The Open University's Language courses and qualifications. The free online translation tool DeepL is currently among the top globally visited websites, and everyday millions of users translate billions of characters with its help, or the help of the similarly successful Google Translate. Research shows that 99% of language students at the OU – and indeed...
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What would it take to save British Home Stores?
Money & Business

What would it take to save British Home Stores?

...out of business eight years ago, BHS is another of those brands that everyone knows in the UK but fewer and fewer people use on a regular basis. As a department store with an extensive range of products from school clothing and fashion to lighting and kitchenware, BHS should be in a position to compete effectively. Evidently it is struggling to do so and there appear to...
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Five smart technologies helping the visually impaired
Society, Politics & Law

Five smart technologies helping the visually impaired

...out how to avoid it. Virtual and Augmented Reality Virtual Reality (VR) is not just about immersive video games, it is increasingly used in the planning of cities and buildings, and even products like cars. But being based on creating worlds using high-quality visual materials, VR has been of little use to the visually impaired. Two new technologies are changing that....
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Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...out”, working at her own pace as and when she can, is a massive bonus, and being able to use OpenLearn to supplement her studies has helped too. ‘I was working on a unit on Plato, which isn’t the area I’m most interested in, so I picked up the Introducing Philosophy course on OpenLearn just to get a little more info.’ She also added that the site has also been a...
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Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence

...out about The Open University's Law courses. Expert criminal evidence reliability is a hot topic of debate these days. Depending on who you ask, decision makers who are tasked with evaluating evidence for trials are either sceptical (such as here and here) or overly trusting of it (see here, here, and here). In England and Wales, the Law Commission and Court of Appeal...
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Causal loop diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Causal loop diagrams

...out of the systems dynamics movement and are most used in organisational settings. Causal loop diagrams are used to graphically depict dynamic interrelationships among variables you may not have considered before. They allow you to see how parts of a system that are separated by location or time might nonetheless interact to generate problems. They can be used as the...
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Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?
Nature & Environment

Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?

...associated with buying fewer garments whilst being equally, if not more satisfied with the contents of our wardrobes. My study aims to explore the feasibility of this ‘win win’ situation by investigating what happens when existing clothes shopping patterns are challenged. To find out more about the project and the author, visit the Coventry university website....
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Why you should visit the OpenLearn sustainability hub
Nature & Environment

Why you should visit the OpenLearn sustainability hub

...out creating a greener, fairer future. From climate change to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, explore free, expert-led content that turns knowledge into action...We all know the planet’s facing some serious challenges - from the climate crisis to rising inequality - and many of us want to make a difference, but aren’t quite sure where to start. That’s...
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