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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

...writing? Incorporating machine translation tools into language teaching can have similarities to using other self-directed strategies, for example flipped classrooms. In both cases, students are given the choice to determine and pursue their own learning objectives. In many instances the teacher can act as a guide and stimulator rather than explaining to and directing the...
Five ways to... use free software
Science, Maths & Technology

Five ways to... use free software

...write letters on your computer. AbiWord and Open Office will do this for free. Open Office is a large download, but also includes spreadsheet, database, drawing and presentation packages. Google Docs will let you do your word processing on a website. The features are more limited, but there are advantages if you’re collaborating with other people. The downside is that...
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...writing made available in such locations to realise the appeal of fiction. Take a few moments to think about Why we read fiction? What do we hope to gain from reading stories about imagined events that happen to imaginary people? Robert DiYanni begins his impressively wide-ranging study Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay (1997) with the following...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...write and understand any whole number, but as you are probably aware numbers are not limited to only whole numbers. You also need ways to represent parts of whole numbers. The two ways that you do this are by using either decimal numbers, like 3.25, or fractions, such as one divided by two . You’ll start with a look at decimal numbers, and then in the coming weeks you...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...write the language to communicate in everyday situations. You will acquire a knowledge of the basic structures of French along with key vocabulary to meet and greet people and to talk about yourself and others. This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXF001 Beginners French 1: eh oui! After...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...writing. The pleasure of inner work: e.g., using reading to learn about oneself, to imagine oneself in different situations and consider options. However, this study of the young people’s perceptions, indicates that only their intellectual pleasure was directly fostered in school. Wilhelm (2016) urges educators to recognize the central role of pleasure and its linked...
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...write these down in your ‘Tips’ notepad which has been created for this course. Anything you write on this notepad is personal to you – no one else can see it. Download the notepad now and save it somewhere so you can access it and add to it throughout the course. ‘Tips’ notepad In case you would rather record your notes that way, text boxes have been added to...
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...writings, which are discussed in detail...This free course, Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations, considers some of the different ways of reading Great Expectations, based on the type of genre the book belongs to. This is one of the most familiar and fundamental ways of approaching literary texts. The novel broadens the scope of study of a realist novel, in...