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Motivating and Engaging Students Using Educational Technologies

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The aim of this chapter is to examine learners’ motivation and engagement in educational settings, with a focus on educational technologies. This chapter is intended to serve a variety of audiences, including those who are interested in (a) understanding how motivation has been conceptualized and studied and/or (b) applying motivation concepts in instructional settings. The chapter begins by providing definitions of motivation and engagement, which are concepts that are commonly used in educational settings, but which are difficult to define precisely. Next, the chapter discusses factors that affect, and that are affected by, learners’ motivation and engagement. Because learners’ motivation cannot be explained fully with one theory, the chapter explains that motivation is studied using many different constructs and mini-theories. The following section presents the means through which motivation and engagement have been assessed, including self-reports, behavioral measures, ratings by others, and physiological data. Next, the chapter explains how instructors can design instruction intentionally to motivate and engage students by using strategies that empower students, help students to understand the usefulness of the content, help students to succeed, make the educational environment interesting, and show students that others in the learning environment care about them. The next section briefly examines the potential motivating effects of current technologies, and the chapter ends with an examination of the construct issues, methodological issues, and interpretation issues faced by researchers studying motivation and engagement.

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