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MAED (Applied Linguistics) at the OU
Languages

MAED (Applied Linguistics) at the OU

...analysis, ethnography, language and globalisation, role of technologies) and apply this to case studies from a variety of contexts. You will enhance your practical understanding of how such research and enquiry can be useful in different areas of life, including your own professional practice. Language, literacy and learning (EE818) MA Ed dissertation: applied linguistics...
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The research and modelling of COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

The research and modelling of COVID-19

...data that are used in such models? Sayantan: We use publicly available patient-level data collated from trusted sources including the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The data includes patient details like age and gender apart from the demographic location, which helps in constructing the network. We also obtain data about the hospital beds across the country from...
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A collection: psychology research students' articles
Health, Sports & Psychology

A collection: psychology research students' articles

...what psychologists do? Discover some of the fascinating research our PhD students in the School of Psychology have been doing in these introductory articles. ...This content is associated with The Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications. Psychology research students’ topics include criminology, teaching, autism, data privacy, politics and extremism....
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How good were the pollster's predictions?
Science, Maths & Technology

How good were the pollster's predictions?

...analysis of the favourite in each of the seats traded on the Betfair market gave the Tories 366 seats and Labour 208. The Predictwise betting aggregation site gave the Conservatives an 81% chance of securing an overall majority of seats, in line with the large sums of money trading on the Betfair exchange. The PredictIt prediction market, meanwhile, estimated just a 15%...
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Active Citizenship in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Active Citizenship in Wales

...analysis and in-depth reports on the big issues facing Wales. TheyWorkForYou An free service that takes open data from the UK Parliament and presents it in a digestible, easy to follow way such as an alert system to keep you up to date your MP’s activity. Full Fact An independent fact checking organisation that can help confirm the validity of news coverage and social...
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Rich pictures
Science, Maths & Technology

Rich pictures

...data about a complex messy situation that you have collected. Using pictures or drawings is helpful in being able to collect it all together on one piece of paper, so that you can see everything together. Using pictures or drawings to think about issues is common to several problem-solving or creative-thinking methods (including therapy). Drawings can both evoke and...
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EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...data. Given that today’s EdTech relies on data to deliver personalised or customised experiences, the laws and regulations that EdTech needs to follow are those of other data processors. Questions around data privacy, security, ownership, and secure storage are important, as well as questions specifically relevant to AI. Several rights-oriented perspectives on EdTech...
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How to find invisible black holes
Science, Maths & Technology

How to find invisible black holes

...data from the SuperWASP All-Sky Survey. The first of these projects was SuperWASP Variable Stars, which is searching for regular, repeating changes in the brightness of stars. [Figure 2: One of the two SuperWASP tele-scopes with its eight individual cameras.] Figure 2: One of the two SuperWASP tele-scopes with its eight individual cameras. SuperWASP itself was an...
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