Motivation is the drive or reason to do something. There are two primary types of motivation. Intrinsic motivation Intrinsic motivation comes from your internal desires and the actions you take are ...

Teachers play a critical role in motivating students and in identifying barriers to learning. The EdWeek Research Center surveyed middle and high school teachers as well as teenage students to learn ...

Motivating students can be a tricky, at times exhausting business, but educators say it’s never been more important to get students engaged in their learning after years of disruptions. At the annual ...

New research suggests that motivation acts less like a volume knob for effort and more like a camera lens that changes how ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Duke University ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Students can sometimes lose motivation heading into final exams, and the answer as to why may lie ...

Motivation is everywhere in education. We’re told to cultivate it, sustain it, and assess it as if learning couldn’t happen without it. It’s common to hear that students need to be supported, inspired ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Adult learning in the United States continues to evolve as colleges, universities, and professional programs adapt to the ...