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Integrating Motivation into Online Learning

This workshop by Prof. Brenda C. Litchfield and Mr. Chris A. Fulton focuses on integrating motivation into online learning through the ARCS model, audience analysis, welcome videos, and interactive student activities for creating a sense of community in online courses. Learn how to make online courses more engaging and interactive for student involvement.

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Integrating Motivation into Online Learning

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  1. Integrating Motivation into Online Learning Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement Prof. Brenda C. Litchfield Mr. Chris A. Fulton

  2. Objectives • Define motivation • List and explain the components of the ARCS model • Create motivational messages/activities for your Moodle course • Perform an audience analysis • Plan and create an welcome video • Create an introductory student activity

  3. Student involvement and motivation

  4. Boring

  5. Online and blended courses • Should be more than just a repository for assignments and readings • Should be interactive • Should get students involved • Should foster a “sense of community”

  6. ARCS Model of Motivation • Attention • Relevance • Confidence • Satisfaction

  7. Audience Analysis • Why is it important to know about your audience --- your students? • You can plan instruction better. • You can meet their needs. • You can motivate them. • You can help them learn.

  8. What you need to know… • Entry behaviors • Prior knowledge • Attitudes toward content and you • Academic motivation • Educational ability and levels • General learning preferences • Group characteristics

  9. Welcome video • Short 4-5 minutes • Get their Attention • Make it Relevant • Make them feel Confident • Make them feel Satisfied

  10. Welcome video • DO NOT read it word-for-word • Write out in bullet form • Use different colors • Sound enthusiastic • Sound happy

  11. Introductory discussion activity • Purpose – students get to know each other • Share ideas & information about themselves • Have fun the first week online • Build relationships

  12. Create an activity for your students • Best if it relates to the course • You need to add rules for participation • Answer main question • Respond to at least two other people

  13. Summary • Online courses need more motivation than on campus courses • You must systematically integrate it from the beginning • Get students to interact with course and each other

  14. Next workshop • March 21, 2012 2:15 – 3:15 Topics • Course organization • Syllabus • Instructional objectives

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