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Download our Chinese characters learning apps
Languages

Download our Chinese characters learning apps

...And you can also add Chinese Handwriting onto most smartphones' keyboard in order to use your touch screen to create typed characters. The link between innovation & teaching and research You can read a research article by Kan Qian and two other authors on Chinese character learning strategies amongst adult distance learners using mobile devices. Try a free Chinese course...
The Weavers’ Uprising and Chatterton Massacre
Society, Politics & Law

The Weavers’ Uprising and Chatterton Massacre

...adults. Educational Resource for Young People - Rise Up! The Lancashire Weaver's Rising and Chatterton Massacre Chatterton: Riot, Fight or Massacre? On 26 April 1826, the picturesque village of Chatterton was the site of one of the most contested moments in British industrial history. On that day, 20 soldiers from the 60th Duke of York Own Rifles and 15 Queen Bay...
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...adults and policymakers that I hear have heard quite a lot of people say, well, get them off Facebook or get them away from whatever social media or devices they're on. I don't think that's realistic. This is the world that we're living in. So it's really about understanding how do young people engage with those media and what kind of an effect might that be having on...
Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?
Society, Politics & Law

Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?

...cares. Europe’s migration crisis simply isn’t about in-work benefits for EU migrants. Everyone understands that the issue of benefits is symbolic. It is about an idea of fairness based on a mixture of a contributory model of the welfare state and welfare chauvinism. EU migrants do not claim more in-work benefits than the British, and since they also pay taxes it is...
Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...to us that distance education already presumes an active form of learning. We can capitalise on this by extending what is already a “flipped” approach to give even more responsibility to those students capable of taking charge of their own and their peer’s learning while never neglecting those who benefit from careful materials preparation and selective scaffolding....
Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?
Nature & Environment

Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?

...careful really” “I know I've been so disappointed with some of the cheaper stuff I've bought and I thought well if I added all that together and bought something that was really nice it would probably do me more favours” Comments such as these indicate that by selecting fewer, well considered and sometimes better quality garments it may be possible to achieve the...
Causal loop diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Causal loop diagrams

...careful to be as accurate as possible by acknowledging any distinctions between a proportional change in the same direction and a direct change in the same direction (or vice versa). Use links and arrows to show the direction of the variables ‘cause and effect’ relationships. Mark the links with an ‘s’ and an ‘o’ to show the nature of (same or opposite) the...
Are mobile phones increasing health inequality in India?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are mobile phones increasing health inequality in India?

...care in areas where most people own mobile phones. This was especially the case for people without mobiles who live in areas with high ownership of these devices. Using data from the 2005 and 2012 rounds of the Indian Human Development Survey, Haenssgen selected 12,000 households that had an illness in both years. In 2005, only three per cent of rural Indian households...