Lessons in Student Motivation
The tools students have at their ready to do well are really amazing: engaging, thorough, and colorful textbooks; the Internet, of course; faculty who know how to teach and offer a plethora of information; and seemingly endless possibilities for optimal learning environments. Yet with all these impr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Park University
2007-01-01
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| Series: | InSight |
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| Online Access: | http://www.insightjournal.net/Volume2/Lessons%20in%20Student%20Motivation.pdf |
| Summary: | The tools students have at their ready to do well are really amazing: engaging, thorough, and colorful textbooks; the Internet, of course; faculty who know how to teach and offer a plethora of information; and seemingly endless possibilities for optimal learning environments. Yet with all these improved “mousetraps” there is one factor that, if missing, will keep each of these silent – and the student will learn little or naught: motivation. Indeed, if the student is not motivated to learn, and his or her motivation is not kept up throughout a course, there is little the student will take away from the course. |
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| ISSN: | 1933-4850 1933-4869 |