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...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 100% of language teachers! – are familiar with online machine translation tools. Many students like these tools for enabling them to quickly look up words and phrases....

...English and Welsh speakers, respectively). Transcripts STUDENTS Open University students who use OpenLearn are 5-10% more likely to pass and progress to their next module, than those who do not. Interested in our full course catalogue now? We understand studying after a number of years can be daunting so every new student about to take on an OU module studies a Badged...

...English, 2021), warranting additional attention. Many families are opting for home education not for a deliberate choice, but as the ‘last resort option’, especially in the case of children with special educational needs (Gillie, 2022; Kendall and Taylor, 2016; Maxwell et al., 2020). The pandemic schooling experience, related to the COVID-19 pandemic, also served as a...

...everyday discussions of citizenship. But a moment's reflection should demonstrate how important it is. The vast majority of us will spend the bulk of our adult lives working in some context or another, and our engagement with economic activity more generally is obvious (and not just as consumers). Many young people are also intimately tied up with work. School children...