Math video games can enhance students’ motivation to learn, but it may depend on how students play, researchers have found in a study of middle-schoolers. Math video games can enhance students' ...

Motivation by design: faculty-led strategies for learning that matters Apps or algorithms alone won’t drive the students of the future to learn. Rather, it will be faculty domain expertise that aligns ...

Last year, Katie Hull Sypnieski and I worked with Ed Week to produce four short animated videos on motivation (see Everything You Wanted to Know About Student Motivation, But Were Afraid to Ask).

Teens spend an estimated nine hours a day using video games, apps, social media, and other technologies. While some screen time is devoted to school or research, approximately four or more hours per ...

Adults lead complex lives with limits on the amount of time they have to engage in formal learning. This reality, combined with the amount of effort and practice needed to develop one’s literacy ...

Engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, or interest that a student shows when they are learning something new. Engagement can be fostered by different types of motivation—external and ...

(This is Part Four in an ongoing series responding to specific teacher questions related to remote learning. You can see Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here.) Note: In addition to a ...