Apps or algorithms alone won’t drive the students of the future to learn. Rather, it will be faculty domain expertise that ...

Positive motivation and affect toward learning science are valued qualities among elementary school teachers. Such positive dispositions toward science may translate to increased teaching of science ...

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 ...

For decades, educators have wondered how to best recapture students’ traveling eyes or prevent their heads from slumping onto their desks. Student engagement is a perennial challenge in the classroom, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the higher education landscape for faculty and students alike. Universities across the globe were forced to close their doors and abruptly shift from ...

SPRINGDALE -- "Grades are extrinsic motivators, (but) deep, meaningful, sustained learning requires intrinsic motivation," says Josh Eyler, director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and ...

The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 88, No. 3 (2017), pp. 376-400 (25 pages) With the aim of advancing the growing research literature on faculty development, a model of pretenure faculty success in ...

One of our favorite books is How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose and others. The chapter we turn to again and again is “What Factors Motivate ...