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Digital technologies and innovation in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital technologies and innovation in health and social care

...concept of internet safety and the possible advantages and disadvantages the internet offers in terms of health and social care. It also explores the ethical and professional issues associated with online social networks when working in health and social care settings. In Accessibility and inclusion in digital health you will consider some of the ways that people can...
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Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...concepts such as intelligibility, fluency, foreign accent, language variation, articulation and acoustics. By the end of this week you will have: considered the differences between intelligibility and foreign accent reflected on your own practice and the most challenging points for your students...Week 1 Why teach pronunciation?: 1 Why teach pronunciation? - It can hardly...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...de trous dans ses études. German: Sie sagt: „Es gibt einen Unterschied“. Spanish: La recuerdo bien. Estaba en la Plaza, embarazoda de mi primer Hiba de 6 messe, Juan Pablo...Session 1: Reflecting on machine translation and language learning: 3 The benefits and limitations of OMT for language learning and teaching - Using OMT for language learning and teaching has...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Methods in Motion: A view from a train
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: A view from a train

...concept of perspective becomes central to knowledge, but it was Einstein who broadened the perspective still further. Einstein made time itself a relative construct, much as Galileo had shown the relativity of motion. I won’t go into that here, but in a nutshell, Einstein showed that the spatial, the energetic and even the temporal characters of sets of objects vary...
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Do animals have sex for fun?
Nature & Environment

Do animals have sex for fun?

...conception, though – most famously the Trobriand Islanders of the South Pacific. New reproductive technologies have meanwhile separated sex and reproduction: it is not necessary for a people to have sex in order to conceive. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, given that people have more sex than they have children. The yoking of sex to reproduction to the...
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Derry Air: the new local history
Society, Politics & Law

Derry Air: the new local history

...concept and practice of so-called ‘reflexive anthropology’: taking seriously, and reporting on the researcher’s own experience (‘experience’ being another valid concept today), a logical extension of the long-established anthropological ‘participant observation’. So taking serious account of one’s own experience – feelings too – has become an approved...
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Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...conception of creativity extends to the framing of the creative industries and the creative economy, where creativity is treated as either almost a commodity or the preserve of the so-called ‘creative class’. In the UK at least, the creative industries have become firmly recognised for their contribution to the economy. Statistics on creative industries output and...
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A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...concept...Find out about The Open University's Open degree. The term ‘misogynoir’ was coined based on the concept of intersectionality by Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey, and refers to the specific forms of misogyny that Black women encounter at the intersection of racism and sexism. Misogynoir has a significant influence on the lives and online experiences of...
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