Teach Online: How to Motivate Your Students?

Name: Teach Online: How to Motivate Your Students?
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How to Motivate Your Students?

Created byPh.D. Minela Kerla

Last updated 11/2019

English

What you'll learn

to understand why students are not motivated to study online
to understand what blocks motivation?
how to motivate students to study online?
learn some practical teaching strategies and get practical tips

Course content

6 sections • 27 lectures • 1h 43m total length

what is motivation, motivating, motivated?6:55
Explore motivation as the experience of desire or aversion, and how intrinsic and extrinsic factors guide students' goals, choices, and commitment to activities like playing an instrument, with teacher support.
Motivation: how does it work?3:41
Explore how motivation emerges from brain processes, with left and right brain interactions, synapses, dopamine rewards, and desire, and examine theories to better motivate your students.

Factors That Influence on Motivation2:53
Explore how teacher qualifications, pedagogy, and program design influence student motivation in online language learning, with emphasis on global platforms and alignment of learner needs.
Technology Reasons4:26
Explore why students lack motivation in online learning, including limited training in using technology, educational system gaps, and uneven development across countries that affect access and engagement.
Communication Reasons4:48
Explore how verbal and nonverbal communication, including affective conversation, affect student motivation, highlighting organized environments, visual cues, and welcoming expressions to foster effective online teaching.
Teaching Style Reasons4:21
Discover how teaching style emerges from background and culture, evolves with experience, and adapts to individual students through coaching, mentoring, and blended learning to match learners' needs.
Redundant Content Reasons3:14

PERMA Model6:17
Grit Model6:19
Explore the grit model, a motivation theory emphasizing persistence and non-cognitive factors that help diverse students stay engaged and reach goals through group support and guided strategies.
Self-Determination Model2:43
Illuminates self-determination theory by highlighting competence, relations, and autonomy as essential needs, per Deci and Rayan, to motivate students to use the language outside class.
Games Model2:04
Design fun activities that engage one-on-one or small-group students, fostering curiosity, positive emotions, and deeper exploration through the games model in online teaching.
ARCS Model of Motivational Design0:07
According to John Keller’s ARCS Model of Motivational Design Theories, there are four steps for promoting and sustaining motivation in the learning process: Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction:
https://www.learning-theories.com/kellers-arcs-model-of-motivational-design.html

Active Listening2:56
Motivate students by practicing active listening, attending to verbal and nonverbal cues, asking for clarification, paraphrasing, and summarizing to align learning plans.
Choice of Task and Effort to Make It3:13
https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-importance-of-motivation-in-an-educational-environment.html
Motivation by Self-Rewording0:30
How many times you started to learn a foreign language and you just quit because you had thousands of reasons to give up. Don’t worry, that happens all the time to everyone. But why do some learners give up and some succeed? The short answer is, it depends on, what you want and how far and deep in learning you want to go? Like every aspect of life, learning will be more successful if planned carefully and in detail as well as providing a backup plan for that learning process. So, in this article, I will point out five key points for successful language learning.
Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation5:18
Motivation by Tension (Challenge, Dissonance, and Reduction)4:02
Motivation by Relevance2:59
Study the book as if your life depended on it. Make learning relevant; have students bring something new.
Motivation by Curiosity3:51

Learning Agreement4:00
Situational Interest and Individual Interest4:33
Explore how situational and individual interests shape online learning and motivation. Learn to provoke and shift interests by moving focus between individual and situational interest through practical activities.
Knowing Students and Caring for Them7:06
How to get to know your students by chatting with them in class , showing interest in their well-being, and initiating classroom discussions. Please have a look some inspiration articles and practical tips and questionnaires about "get to know your student" at the beginning of your course.
Formative and Summative Feedback4:19
Procrastination versus Persistence6:47
Empowerment3:27
Empower online learners by embracing varied tools and platforms, fostering student voice and positive practice, and linking exercises to real environments—encouraging blogging, videos, podcasts, and peer feedback to sustain motivation.

Summary1:21
Define motivation, explore why online students may lack it, analyze materials, and apply theoretical models to design programs, syllabi, and practical teaching strategies and tips.
End Note1:47
Start by motivating yourself to motivate your students, maintain open communication about goals, and explore learning theories to translate them into practical teaching beyond this course.

Requirements

to have basic knowledge about teaching
be familiar with basic terms of motivation and online teaching

Description

Most of the online teachers are struggling to keep students awake and guide to the end of the course program, to reduce the number of droppings and raise the number of satisfied students. This course is designed to help teachers with it. The course brings basic factors that influence on motivation to study live in the interface settings with educator guides. In the course are analyzed and considered motivational models, methods and strategies. In the course are given a lot of practical tips and tricks that would help online teachers to improve their practice.

Who this course is for:

online educators who are willing to improve their teaching skills
educators who are looking for inspirations

Teach Online: How to Motivate Your Students?

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Course content

What is human motivation?2 lectures • 11min

Why students are not motivated to study online?5 lectures • 20min

Motivation Models5 lectures • 18min

Motivational methods7 lectures • 23min

Motivation strategies6 lectures • 30min

Summary2 lectures • 3min

Requirements

Description

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