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Early childhood health promotion
Education & Development

Early childhood health promotion

...OU Education Conference, sharing insights from research into early childhood health promotion...This presentation shared the findings from research based on the Child Health Promotion: A Toolkit for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Practitioners. The Toolkit includes a 5 Step Programme as a model to guide practitioners in identifying and implementing a health...
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Video 45 mins
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...become a crucial part of French culture. In this free course, Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema, you will learn about the art, the industry and the distinctive nature of French cinema. You will find out about influential French filmmakers, such as the new generation of female directors and will learn about independent arthouse cinemas, under threat from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning

...student performance and achievement. But machine translation tools can do much more than translation, and they can be used as tools to support individual language learning! [A hand holding up a smart phone, with a translation app open.]Karina von Lindeiner-Stráský leads a team of OU researchers that explore the use of online translation tools in language learning and...
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Article 5 mins
Gender, IT and economic growth
Society, Politics & Law

Gender, IT and economic growth

...students] Economic growth in the global South has begun to dominate world imagination. Ever since a series of reports produced by Goldman Sachs in the 2000s suggested that countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa were driving economic growth, there has been increasing interest in the Rising Powers, as they have come to be called. They have proven to be...
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Article 10 mins
Treezilla
Society, Politics & Law

Treezilla

...students and the general public can get involved with. The idea is to map every tree in Britain. This will create a data-rich platform on which a wide range of citizen science investigations can be built". Treezilla is one of many applications available with The OpenScience Laboratory. It was initiated by researchers, scientists & educators and encourages people to...
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Activity 5 mins
PodMag October 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag October 2016

...2 History module on the birth of modern Britain, Helen Kaye talks about the new 3rd level Psychology module where students can undertake their own research, and Catriona Havard tells us about the exciting 3rd level interdisciplinary counselling and forensic psychology module first being presented in October 2017. Select here for a copy of the transcript of this audio...
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Audio 20 mins
World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Emily Davies

...students with the same curriculum as that followed by male students to ensure that women’s achievements would be recognised as equal. However, women were not awarded degrees on an equal basis to men at Cambridge until 1948. Fifty years afterwards, in 1998, a special ceremony was held at the university to honour the 900 women who had earned, but not been awarded, degrees...
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Article 5 mins
Cultures
Languages

Cultures

...ou actuelles? - Les musiques traditionnelles ont envahi la scène artistique à partir des années soixante-dix. Vingt ans plus tard, portées par un regain de popularité, elles ont réapparu sous la bannière très éclectique des «musiques du monde». Ayant su profiter de l’intérêt grandissant du public pour ces musiques, les musiques traditionnelles se sont sans...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs