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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...motivates the other person to change behaviour. Giving feedback is an essential skill: especially with critical feedback, if it isn’t done effectively, or even avoided, it can have a hugely negative impact on the other person’s motivation and engagement (Bakker and Leiter, 2010). In her review of over twenty-five years of psychological research into feedback, Valerie...
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Article 10 mins
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...motivated them to take action and resolve problems and this in turn reduced anxiety (Davey, 1994). Similarly, McCaul et al. (2007) found that cigarette smokers were more inclined to stop smoking if worried about the risks of smoking. Overall, such findings suggest that mild to moderate levels of worry can be beneficial, motivating people to put in the bit of extra effort...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
New course available: How to learn a language
Languages

New course available: How to learn a language

...This free course will introduce you to the skills and strategies you need for language learning. You will be encouraged to set realistic goals when learning a language, and you will be given advice on how to keep motivated to achieve these goals. You will practise speaking skills and vocabulary learning strategies. Follow this link to the course: How to learn a language....
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Article 10 mins
Daisy Main
Miscellaneous

Daisy Main

...motivated. It provides a low-pressure environment to learn when you aren’t in term time.’ Confidence and self-belief have been huge things I’ve struggled with. I feel OpenLearn courses can really help students to learn how to learn. It keeps us motivated. OpenLearn has also supported Daisy in other ways, as she explained: ‘Confidence and self-belief have been huge...
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Article 5 mins
The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid
Languages

The Special Adviser’s Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

...motivation. Humans tend to act in response to a number of primal emotions, and storytelling – especially when used for persuasive purposes – taps into these. The original aim of the government’s narrative was to justify Cummings’s actions by foregrounding one emotional rationale over another. Okay, so maybe he’d bent the rules ever so slightly with his trip...
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Article 10 mins
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...motivate students to learn languages that’s the challenge. For that MFL teachers need to be enthusiastic about learning, passionate about teaching languages and aware of the main issues in relation to language learning pedagogy, the wider context of MFL education and how this affects teaching a language in the secondary schools curriculum. This means we have to...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...motivation and some research suggests extrinsic motivation has a detrimental effect on children’s comprehensionIn other ways too, with the best of intentions, schools can be sucked into performing reading for pleasure. Institution-wide competitions exist aplenty, including for example: extravagant dressing-up competitions on World Book Day, and competitions to read...
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Article 10 mins
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...et al., 2009, pp. 88–90 and Everard and Wilson, 2004)...Week 2: The secrets of motivation and teams: 2.2 From theory into practice - Herzberg’s theory raises some interesting points about how organisations and managers might operate: people work at their best when they are achieving the greatest satisfaction from their work. Thinking about the people who featured in...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs