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- By: CLT Academic Staff Development (email: cab80@bath.ac.uk)
- Faculty/Department: Professional Services (Centre for Learning and Teaching)
- Is this an Internal or External Resource?: Internal
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Brief Description
Motivation may be a major factor in the approach taken to learning by students. Changing attitudes within the student body, increasing diversity amongst the student population, widening participation, outreach work, fees, and national policy and debates may all mean that the motivations observed by staff shift over time and context. The study of motivation in education (at all levels) is a large field and so presented here is a short summary of some categorisations regarding student motivation from the literature, along with an example question that we can ask about our own students to help understand their differing motivations better.
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So What? What have you Learnt from it? Any Advice for others? What Worked and what did not Work?:
Motivation