OU sports academic Caroline Heaney and athletes discuss the sources of motivation and how to get motivated to achieve goals.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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John Zarnecki devoted almost 20 years to landing the Huygens probe on Titan. Here, he discusses his motivation.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
"It's better than the boss turning up and saying 'well done, guys'..."
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
"Everyone knows what an Oscar is..."
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
"They validate team effort... and a winning agency"
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Sport can place high levels of stress on athletes, coaches and others involved. If unable to cope with these stresses they may be vulnerable to developing burnout. This free course, Learning from sport burnout and overtraining, examines burnout in sport from various perspectives including both the coach’s and athlete’s perspective. Drawing on real life case studies it explores how coaches can recognise and prevent burnout in athletes, and investigates the prevention and treatment of burnout in coaches. This course is for you if you are interested in developing an holistic understanding of burnout in sport.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free course, Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness, explores the personal skills that underpin so much work in sport and gyms. We often hear employers refer to the importance of these interpersonal relationships or ‘soft skills’ in sport and fitness, and in this unique course you’ll build valuable insights into understanding workplace communication, motivation and self-awareness and how this can increase your effectiveness and enhance how you work with others. All this is made possible by some unique film footage of coaches, trainers and instructors at work combined with engaging learning activities that accompany these case studies to benefit both your career and those you work with.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
This free course explores the term 'motivation' and factors affecting motivation. This includes looking at the most influential theories of motivation that contribute to understanding the causes of motivation. The motivation of sports people and people working in sport and fitness environments are used to help understand the theories presented.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
The pursuit of excellence makes often enormous demands. What leads people to take up sports – and why do they keep going through the rough patches?
Category: Sport & Fitness
Get the best start to 2021 with advice from Open University academics and FREE courses on mental health, wellbeing, careers and money management.
Category: Mental Health
Staying motivated while studying can be incredibly difficult, especially if you’re neurodivergent. This animation explains how a virtual accountability partner can help with distance learning.
Category: Education & Development
Could you study while you wait, travel or do chores? This animation explains how to make the most of your pockets of time throughout the day.
Category: Education & Development
Short bursts of action can help motivate you while you study. This short animation tells you more about the Pomodoro Technique.
Category: Education & Development
Motivation is sometimes reported to be the key factor in educational achievement - but what is motivation? If we understand motivation a little better, we might get better at helping students to succeed.
Category: Education
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Providing an overview of current issues in UK science education, Changes in Science Education is a free course that examines what type of science the curriculum should cover and for what purpose. It will introduce you to the practical problems of delivering an effective science curriculum, touching upon particular questions at all three educational tiers - primary, secondary and tertiary.
Please note: This is course is due to be archived on Wednesday 7th December. You can study the course up until this date. For learners who have completed the course, the Statement of Participation will remain in your learner records in your OpenLearn profile.
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Providing an overview of current issues in UK science education, Changes in Science Education is a free course that examines what type of science the curriculum should cover and for what purpose. It will introduce you to the practical problems of delivering an effective science curriculum, touching upon particular questions at all three educational tiers - primary, secondary and tertiary.
Category: Education
This free course, The business of football, was produced by The Open University working in partnership with The English Football League Trust. If you are fascinated by men's and women's football and interested in discovering more about business and management, then this engaging and stimulating course is for you.
Category: Money & Business
Welcome to this free course, The business of football, produced by The Open University working in partnership with The English Football League Trust. If you are fascinated by football and interested in discovering more about business and management, then this engaging and stimulating course, which provides the opportunity to share and comment on your learning with others, is for you. You can progress at your own pace over 3 to 5 weeks, and it will take a minimum of around 9 hours of your time over this period.
Category: Money & Business
Welcome to this free course, The business of football, produced by The Open University working in partnership with The Football League Trust. If you are fascinated by football and interested in discovering more about business and management, then this engaging and stimulating course, which provides the opportunity to share and comment on your learning with others, is for you. You can progress at your own pace over 3 to 5 weeks, and it will take a minimum of around 9 hours of your time over this period.
In the following video, Eleanor Oldroyd from BBC Radio 5 explains a little more about the topics you will examine.
In the following video, Eleanor Oldroyd from BBC Radio 5 explains a little more about the topics you will examine.
Category: Money & Business
Welcome to this free course, The business of football, produced by The Open University working in partnership with The Football League Trust. If you are fascinated by football and interested in discovering more about business and management, then this engaging and stimulating course, which provides the opportunity to share and comment on your learning with others, is for you. You can progress at your own pace over 3 to 5 weeks, and it will take a minimum of around 9 hours of your time over this period.
In the following video, Eleanor Oldroyd from BBC Radio 5 explains a little more about the topics you will examine.
In the following video, Eleanor Oldroyd from BBC Radio 5 explains a little more about the topics you will examine.
Category: Money & Business
Welcome to this free course, The business of football, produced by The Open University working in partnership with The Football League Trust. If you are fascinated by football and interested in discovering more about business and management, then this engaging and stimulating course, which provides the opportunity to share and comment on your learning with others, is for you. You can progress at your own pace over 3 to 5 weeks, and it will take a minimum of around 9 hours of your time over this period.
In the following video, Eleanor Oldroyd from BBC Radio 5 explains a little more about the topics you will examine.
In the following video, Eleanor Oldroyd from BBC Radio 5 explains a little more about the topics you will examine.
Category: Money & Business