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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...everyday communication but what concerns do they raise among language teachers when they’re used in assessments? This article examines the issues involved...This content is associated with The Open University's Language courses and qualifications. ‘So how can we create assessment tasks for language learners in times of digital machine translation tools…’ Karina...
Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...everyday life, together with a gap in clinical services, has led to “the rise of e-therapies” (Stasiak et al., 2015, p. 2), such that computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (a type of computerised/e-therapy) has been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for adults with mild to moderate depression (NICE, 2009). A number of...
What is Indigenous Psychology?
Education & Development

What is Indigenous Psychology?

...everyday life, for example, adherence to the local customs and celebration of localised practices. The ongoing local knowledge accumulation, and generating new localised knowledge, may help to develop a sustained indigenous psychology (Shams, 2005). Why is indigenous psychology important? Indigenous psychology is influenced by ecopsychology. Ecopsychology aims to find out...
Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...everyday dilemmas about how we should live. Many eminent academics have participated in this fourteen-part series such as a star trio of American-based professors, Michael Sandel, Thomas Scanlon and Peter Singer... Ethics Bites A short introduction to this album Free Speech It’s not just what you say, it’s why you say it and why your audience is listening. Tim Scanlon...
Audio 3 hrs 49 mins
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...everyday objects to connect with the ordinary experiences of people in the past. You will learn how artefacts from medical collections can contribute to social history research on infancy. Finally, you will examine criminal justice history to understand how research can challenge existing perceptions or myths about the past. Through the activities in each section you will...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...English teachers against all odds? My heart was beating fast, telling me “Yes, you can!” But my brain said otherwise. I had prepared for the worst and I was telling myself that at least I have given my best, and I have been truthful to myself and to my motherland. So I should be able to face the consequence without regret, no matter what. I could not believe my ears...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...English people were importunate for dramatic entertainments. The court took offence easily at political allusions, and attempted to suppress them. The Puritans, a growing and energetic party, and the religious among the Anglican church, would suppress them. But the people wanted them. Inn-yards, houses without roofs, and extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs, were...
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...English inn, such as I did not so nearly realize anywhere else. The ideal was a little impaired by the electric light in our bedrooms, but it was not a very brilliant electric light, and there was a damp cold in the corridors which allowed no doubt of its genuineness. In the dining-room, which was also the reading-room, there was an admirable image of a fire in the grate,...