Assignment
Reflect on your learning throughout this course, including your experience with the Motivation Evaluation and Recommendations project, and respond to the following:
How have you deepened your understanding of motivation and the factors that influence it?
What were the most significant insights you gained from the course project?
How has your learning in this course affected your own motivation in your personal and/or professional life?
What will be the most important ways in which you will apply your new insights in an educational setting?
Assignment length: 2-3 pages
Resources to Use:
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Required Readings
There are no required readings this week.
Media
Video: Laureate Education (Producer). (2011). Motivation and learning: Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 9 minutes.
In this program, Dr. Raymond Wlodkowski explains the different reasons people are motivated and why culture and motivation are inseparable. As well, he also provides us with the distinctions between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
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Optional Resources
Course Text: Motivation in Education: Theory, Research and Applications
Chapter 6: "Interest and Affect"
Chapter 7: "Intrinsic Motivation".