Student motives for online learning used to include, “It’s more convenient,” “I enjoy the anonymity,” or, “It’s easier and takes less time.” However, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, these ...

Empathetic teachers enhance children's motivation and academic skills, such as reading, writing and arithmetic skills. A positive atmosphere created by the teacher also safeguards and increases ...

Editor’s note: This article on learning and student motivation originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. In 2020, my wife and I bought a used 2017 ...

The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 101, No. 3, BEYOND GLOBAL ENGLISH: MOTIVATION TO LEARN LANGUAGES IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD (Fall 2017), pp. 597-607 (11 pages) The majority of recent research on ...

Competition. A strong idea that propels many of us to motivate in real ways. I’m fiercely competitive; I always have been. Having played many sports when I was a student, often as the only girl on an ...

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Vol. 27, No. 2 (June 2012), pp. 177-193 (17 pages) This paper presents the development of a heuristic framework that integrates three aspects of context ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly prevalent in classrooms around the globe, questions arise about its impact on student motivation. While AI has the potential to revolutionize ...

When an exam is coming up, many students focus on memorizing vocab and skimming textbooks even if that isn't the best way to ...

If you want to effortlessly become an expert in a new language, you’re probably too late. That’s an opportunity largely reserved for children. And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or ...

As such, the following recommendations are designed to enhance motivation across learning platforms but are especially helpful for online instruction during the unusual circumstances created by the ...