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Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...work for you in your own learning and teaching of a language. The third session focuses on learning grammar and practising translation and presents you with different sample activities in French, German, Spanish and English to support your learning and teaching in these areas with OMT. Session 4 draws this course to a conclusion by demonstrating when and how OMT can be...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...social economy. It is rather a plea to voters to endorse him, and his choice to surrender, as a lesser evil. The Conversation asked nine leading academics what their questions were for a man who describes himself as an “accidental economist”. His answers reveal regrets about his own approach during a dramatic 2015, a withering assessment of France’s power in Europe,...
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Article 10 mins
A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...social activist at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town...It was a grey, damp Boxing day morning 2021 in England and the very sad news arrived of the death at age 90 of Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu earlier that morning in Cape Town after a full and active life of great moral conviction and compassion for humanity. Online messaging technology, not available at the time of...
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Article 10 mins
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...work directly with AI when, as Couzens (n.d.) states, they predominantly rely on algorithms, indicating that the role AI plays in sports is not always clear. So, what do we mean when we talk about AI in sports and what can it do? [Wooden blocks with symbol of digital disruption concept on blue background] ‘A branch of computer science that aims to create machines and...
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Article 5 mins
Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...social class has its own vocabulary, and they change year on year, and I think one of the jobs of a playwright is to listen to those and keep up to date with those. I think on the whole you instinctively listen to the different rhythms of the way that people speak. Some people do speak in a more kind of flowing, mellow kind of a way, and some people have a more kind of...
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Audio 15 mins
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...works because they're what we call mutually exclusive events. A number greater than 3 cannot be both odd and even. So each of the numbers: 4, 5, and 6 can only be an even number or an odd number. And when you have mutually exclusive events, you can do this adding up calculation. So one way of calculating the probability of an outcome is to compare the number of ways that...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...Social Sciences...Climate change: island life in a volatile world: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the world is in the process of ‘being made’, right down to the earth beneath our feet consider how islands are shaped by a dynamic relationship between territories and flows show how human life is entangled with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...social justice in South Africa during the Apartheid struggle. Simon had a difficult time coming out to his parents, and while they claimed to support him they attempted conversion therapy by bringing him to various religious leaders and psychiatrists, when he started a relationship with a man. It wasn’t until both families discovered that they had made a suicide pact...
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Article 20 mins