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 ...

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 ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly prevalent in classrooms around the globe, questions arise about its ...

Imagine a student using a writing assistant powered by a generative AI chatbot. As the bot serves up practical suggestions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...