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Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...working on a task can also be motivating. When something feels easy, it can mean that success is possible and when something feels difficult, it can mean that success is worthwhile (“no pain, no gain”). In this case, homework that feels easy implies: “I can do this!” Homework that feels difficult implies: “This is valuable!” Naturally, the demotivating frames...
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Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...work of Treezilla...Find out more about The Open University's Geography courses and qualifications Trees have been in the news a lot recently with political parties trying to outdo each other on tree planting pledges. As the climate crisis has risen up the political agenda, trees and tree planting have been recognised as an important response since they take up carbon...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains

...work, in the evening time. Jack Fowler Traffic lights on a bridge change the patterns of the traffic flow. Once it changes then you’ve got all the traffic that’s backed up, and they come, a wave of them rush across the bridge, and whatever is in that line, that’s the load that you’re going to get at that time. And it was on both sides and it worked both ways. So...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse

...work, it would be another bridge next to the exact same bridge that you have, and then remove that false work when you’re all complete. The different techniques that we use to inspect the steel members would be, um, non-destructive testing where we can x-ray the metal or we can use a sonogram where you use a gel over top of the metal with a sound probe. In the near...
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For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists
Health, Sports & Psychology

For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists

...worked around the clock for three exhausting days to provide basic nursing care – feeding people, giving medications, turning them every two hours and cleaning them up. One older man had severe cerebral palsy but was fully alert. He had been lying in a dirty diaper for hours, on a pallet on the floor in a crowded, loud, bright room. I knelt down to tell him I’d be...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Eavan Boland

...work to a polished gemstone. It is easy to access her low-key vocabulary and plain voice. When she first started writing, Boland soon moved past rhyme and other formal patterns in her poetry. She felt these were typical of male Irish poetry and made her feel she was ‘writing someone else’s poem’. As she matured, Boland freed her own voice. By the mid-1970s, her...
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The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it
Health, Sports & Psychology

The benefits of mindfulness and five common myths surrounding it

...work out what might be keeping them ‘feeling stuck’, and to support them to adopt strategies which help improve their day-to-day lives and allow them to reach their longer-term goals. Mindfulness is about moving away from our ‘automatic pilot’ approach (what we can also think of as our ‘doing mode’) and moving to more of a ‘being mode’. Where people...
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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...working in diverse environments with people from a broad spectrum of backgrounds can have on all students living and working in a multicultural society, or those who will enter a globalised business world (Arday, 2019). These findings, among others, influenced the project to explore what can be done to address the disparity between the diversity of the student body and...
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