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Dignity matters. It is fundamental to our well-being as well as professional and organisational success. Indeed, dignity is at the heart of patient safety matters. Dignity is a social practice, and entails treating people fairly and accepting their identity whatever their class, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Essentially, when someone treats us as if we don’t matter, they violate our dignity. Violating an individual’s dignity subverts their agency and autonomy. In the healthcare workplace, dignity violations include bullying and harassment, talking to or about people inappropriately, disregarding issues around valid consent, confidentiality and safety. Breaching dignity in the workplace is detrimental at every level; the individual, team, organisation and societal levels. This workshop aims to (1) introduce the concept of workplace dignity and discuss the utility of this concept in healthcare settings; (2) introduce a virtual reality-based intervention designed to facilitate dignified communication in the face of a dignity violation: the Body Swap; (3) consider ways in which the Body Swap might be developed as a useful method of tackling dignity violations in your own healthcare workplace; and (4) consider ways in which the efficacy of the Body Swap application can be researched.

Motivation is the reason that someone engages in a certain behaviour. In education, motivation is a causal factor of learning and it can be used to direct a student’s behaviour towards a particular goal, increase a student’s applied effort and energy, increase a student’s initiation and persistence in activities, enhance cognitive processing, and it can lead to improved student performance. Attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction) which are conditions that need to be met for people to become and remain motivated (ARCS Model). Technologies are an indispensable part of the 21st century. In order to engage and motivate the learning of the younger generation, there are some new approaches like gamification, virtual reality, augmented reality, simulations and other technology-enhanced learning opportunities that show a positive impact on learning motivation and engagement development. Teacher must know how to Provoke students’ curiosity and intrinsic motivation to learn. Teachers can assist students to become independent, creative, and critical thinkers by providing experiences, such as problem-solving activities that develop these skills. Learning objectives: At the end of workshop participants should be able to  Discuss the different theories of motivation.  Familiarize with theories of technology enhanced learning  Describe the needs of 21st century learner (Generation y, z).  Discuss the enablers and inhibitors of motivation in technology enhanced learning.  Reflect on classroom strategies to improve student’s motivation in Digital era