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

...studies suggest that motivation – rather than ability or skill – is the best predictor of educational and professional attainment. But what do we actually mean by motivation? It seems that wherever one turns, experts have new advice on how to be motivated. As researchers interested in motivation and educational success, we wondered: Is motivation just one thing, or...

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Article 5 mins

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Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms

...skills or rediscover old interests. 5. Being in an online fandom should be fun! Online music fandoms help members momentarily escape from the stresses and challenges of daily life. They can bring out your inner child as you participate in games, quizzes and competitions or share feelings of excitement around new releases or concerts with others. Laughter is a huge part of...

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Article 5 mins

Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses. ['Understanding autism' digital badge]...Overview and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read each week of the course score 50% or more in the two badge quizzes in Week 4 and...

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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs

Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...skills? The former, a more appropriately aspirational goal, represents each child’s maximum entitlement. This involves parents and teachers working towards developing readers who can and do choose to read, and who read with interest and enjoyment, engagement and imagination, and increasing discernment and critical reflection over time. Such engaged readers focus on...

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Article 10 mins

Society, Politics & Law

How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility

...skilled jobs, lack of recognition of qualifications, limiting migration policies). Starting all over again While we provide in-depth case studies in the article, here, let me summarise what we have found by looking at both EU migrants and those from outside the EU who have not enjoyed the same rights to migration and European citizenship. Time is lived on the micro-level...

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Article 5 mins

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Безкоштовні онлайн-ресурси для українців, які проживають у Великобританії та Ірландії

...for study' written across] НАВИЧКИ ДЛЯ ЗДОБУТТЯ НОВИХ ЗНАНЬ: Процес навчання, особливо після багаторічної паузи, може бути складним. Ці безкоштовні курси (англійською мовою) оновлять ваше вміння сприйняття нової...

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Article 5 mins

History & The Arts

Ten commandments of research

...studying the slave trade, for example, what the slave owners felt was important is almost certainly not what the slaves felt was important! Arthur Marwick, the former Professor of History at the Open University, used to distinguish between witting testimony (the information the writer intended to convey) and unwitting testimony (the prejudices and assumptions underlying...

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Article 5 mins

Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions, and outlines the important...

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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs

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