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Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...sustainable and lasting. Reflective translators can analyse the OMT output and adjust their prompts to improve their results over time. This iterative process helps to get the most out of the translation tools. Critical awareness: Critical awareness is very important when judging OMT. Understanding how OMT tools work and using this knowledge to critically evaluate the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...sustainable leaders and avoiding career derailment. Oxford and Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann. Cathcart, E.B., Greenspan, M. and Quin, M. (2010) ‘The making of a nurse manager: the role of experiential learning in leadership development’, Journal of Nursing Management, 18, pp. 440–7. Crockett, E. (2017) The woman who inspired Martin Luther King’s “I Have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...sustained way when they suddenly become ill or infirm. Body projects can also be a way to challenge accepted societal ideas about what ‘normal’ or ‘natural’ bodies should look like. In this respect, individuals celebrate their difference and create alternative identities through a range of body modification activities such as tattooing, piercing and bodybuilding...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...sustaining and reinforcing those relationships. And playing with words, playing with grammatical patterns, playing with lexical patterns is an important part of maintaining those relationships. It’s an essentially interpersonal function – therefore, something that tells us a lot about how we communicate with each other, why we communicate, in what context we do it and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...sustained increase over time in the general level of prices for goods and services. If, for example, the rate of price inflation is 4%, this means that you will need £104 to buy the same goods and services next year that you can buy this year with £100. There are two main inflation figures used in the UK: the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the Retail Prices Index...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve the lives of all people in low-income countries and to ‘address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice’ (UN, 2019). There are 17 goals, which often overlap and interrelate. [A graphic showing the 17 Sustainable...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...sustain relationships with their friends, family members, and support workers as they get older is also really important. The second key element is supporting people to age well. This is about supporting people with the physical, mental, social and emotional changes related to ageing. It's also about planning ahead. This means really thinking about what happens as people...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...sustainability and T313 Renewable energy. It should take about 10 hours study time. You will need a calculator handy (perhaps within your computer) to answer some of the course questions...Energy in buildings: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the main ways in which a house loses heat energy carry out basic U-value...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs