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Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course

...fictional detectives and crime dramas. More Raymond Chandler and Humphrey Bogart than Jo Nesbo and Patricia Cornwell; a clue, perhaps, as to my lack of experience with contemporary crime fiction. But I'm writing a course on forensic psychology that will follow a fictional investigation, and cannot have Philip Marlowe wandering across the same page as the latest...
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...learn to implement freely available online machine translation tools (OMT) such as Google Translate or DeepL into your language learning or teaching. The course is aimed at learners and teachers of all languages and levels. It introduces the uses of AI in language learning and provides activities and examples of how to use online machine translation tools to further...
Supporting children’s learning in the early years
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in the early years

...learn, and how can adults help them? This album looks at how nursery teachers support children in their development. We follow a practitioner’s day, looking at how she works with children, observes and plans for further activities while she also records her thoughts and ideas using a video camera. Further video tracks reveal how creativity is nurtured in young children...
Language and Meaning: How We Learn
Languages

Language and Meaning: How We Learn

...learn language, learn through language and learn about language in the myriad different contemporary contexts of formal and informal learning? This material is taken from The Open University course E852 Language, literacy and learning in the contemporary world... Scarlett in the garden Two year old Scarlett uses and develops her language as she explores the ......
Can you learn a language with an app?
Languages

Can you learn a language with an app?

...learning - but how effective are they? Fernando Rosell-Aguilar explores...['hello' in various languages ] Language learning apps are very popular in app stores worldwide – and are said to be revolutionising language learning. These apps offer opportunities to practise grammar and can be a very rewarding way to learn vocabulary. But there has been discussion about just...
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...learning. Taking pupils to a museum, or bringing museum artefacts into school, instantly changes the dynamics of the usual learning environment. It gives you as a teacher the opportunity to start afresh with each child, to reach and engage with pupils in new and different ways. This free course, Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits, explores practical ways in which...
Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...learn and with how this learning should happen. However, schools often have a narrow view of learning and how it can be achieved. Under everyday pressures, and drawing on a history of practice, schools tend to spend a lot of time focusing on mechanistic matters. The purpose of education seems to be subsumed by processes and structures, dominated by an overemphasis on what...
Learning Design Vision Statement Tool
Education & Development

Learning Design Vision Statement Tool

A reconceptualised and bi-lingual version of the original Learning Design Wordwheel for Mandarin speaking learning designers...[Snippet of the Learning Design Vision Statement Tool] Click on the image above, to launch the interactive full screen.