In several ocassions our students don't make a correct use of technologies in higher education institutions in the direction of educational uses, e-learning and outcomes of ICT in classrooms.
The teachers must make the lessons more interesting for the students, increasing student's motivation, improving presentation of materials, making the teaching more enjoyable,
I believe that we need organisational changes in this direction.
Do you know any standardized questionnaire about the motivation in the use of TIC?
Hello Octavio. Contact Prof. Gloria Mousalli, here in Res.Gate. She'll surely help you.
Adriana Camilleri's (2015) empirical study on Digital Learning Resources has explored the underlying relationships between constructs; ‘pace of technological innovativeness’ (De Smet, Bourgonjon, De Wever, Schellens and Valcke, 2012; Grewal, Mehta and Kardes, 2004); ‘technology acceptance’ (Jackson, Mun and Park, 2013; Cheon, Lee, Crooks and Song, 2012; Huang et al., 2012; Davis, 1989); and technology anxiety (Celik and Yesilyurt, 2013; Tondeur, van Braak, Sang, Voogt, Fisser and Ottenbreit-Leftwich, 2012); Meuter, Bitner, Ostrom and Brown, 2005) in the Maltese educational context.
Here's what is available in RG:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicliterature.PublicLiterature.search.html?type=keyword&search-keyword=Measuring+Student+Motivation+Toward+Using+ICT&search-abstract=&search=Search
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DF
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Dear Octavio!
I don´t know questionnaires especially for ICT, but maybe the following general motivational inventories are interesting for you:
(1) SIMS (Guay, F., Vallerand, R. J., & Blanchard, C. (2000). On the Assessment of Situational Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: The Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS). Motivation and Emotion, 24(3), pp. 175–213.)
(2) IMI (McAuley, E., Duncan, T., & Tammen, V. V. (1987). Psychometric properties of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory in a competitive sport setting: A confirmatory factor analysis. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 60, pp. 48-58.)
Please enter the key words of these citations (IMI Intrinsic Motivation Inventory; SIMS Situational Motivation Scale) in the search machine goolge and you will find open information as well as literature including the scales.
I hope this information is helpful.
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Johannes
In my experience, making the access to technoloy-enhanced items for learning (such content in the form of podcasts, screencasts, videoclips..) an essential part of the preparation process for seminars would send a strong message, motivatinal too, on the importance of the use of technology for educational purposes. It may take a bit of time and encouragement on your part to begin with, but eventually it clicks in place.
This means that a change of strategy for teaching could lead the students to engage more purposefully with technology. Just google "Flipping the classroom" for some ideas.
Let me know if you have any further questions linked to this. I'll be happy to expand on the topic, as it does work for me, and most importantly for my students.
Best wishes,
Marián
Hola, Octavio!
First of all, congrats for your great work! I'm reading your papers and they are very helpful for me.
The use of new techs of information and communication is often problematic in school's everyday life. I frequently see some students surfing in FB within class period. Even outside classroom I see groups of students (sometimes 10 or more) in absolute silence, chatting with someone else through smartphones! I usually stop in front of them, look to their faces and say "nice talk!".
But despite the problem seems to be the same everywhere I'm not sure about a single solution. I believe the solution requires a "fine tune" which depends on the local context of each school.
So, maybe, you shoud think in a "customized questionnaire" instead of a "standard questionnaire" to map the critical points in your reality.
I'm doing such investigation through the use of Moodle platform, which I use to survey students and build tools to try to enhance their learning potential. Social networks inside school are still a challenge for me, which I intend to "immerse" soon.
In my paper (in portuguese) "Observação do letramento no ensino superior" I show part of my strategies to use NTIC inside school.
Salutos!
Tarcisio.
I have also a found using the discussion forum for debating also helps to motivate students to participate as they compete against their opponents as I described in this recent conference paper:
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Debra
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