It seems to me that if we KNOW what motivates students, we can better appeal to that motivation.
There are many frameworks for understanding motivation, like Gardner's instrumental versus integrative. I am interested in knowing what specific kinds of things motivate your students? Is it things you do in class and assignments? Personal goals? Pressure from parents or peers? Something else?
Hi Michael, a very relevant question nowadays ;-)
It seams to me that very often it is peer pressure. For instance, in our recent article "Learning management systems and cloud file hosting services: A study on students’ acceptance" a representative group of students throughout Europe stated that peers influence the use of Dropbox vs. the use of university systems.
Best,
Vladimir
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Hi Michael,
could you please state your question more clearly, because "motivation" seems to be a huge field of research.
Because there is a huge amount of influencing variables like teachers, material, parents, peers, emotion, cognition etc. on motivation I think it is important to focus on a specific aspect of motivation.
If you are interested in learning material I could help.
Best,
Matthias
Matthias,
I have done plenty of research and writing about motivation from a research perspective.
I was asking this question in a more practical sense -- from your observations of your students in your classes, what things cause them to be motivated to do their class work, or NOT do it. I was not asking in a theoretical or research-oriented sense. I was asking in terms of the real-life students we see in class and work with every day.
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