Teachers play a critical role in motivating students and in identifying barriers to learning. The EdWeek Research Center surveyed middle and high school teachers as well as teenage students to learn ...

Motivating students can be a tricky, at times exhausting business, but educators say it’s never been more important to get students engaged in their learning after years of disruptions. At the annual ...

Motivation is everywhere in education. We’re told to cultivate it, sustain it, and assess it as if learning couldn’t happen without it. It’s common to hear that students need to be supported, inspired ...

Editor’s note: This article on learning and student motivation originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. In 2020, my wife and I bought a used 2017 ...

Students can sometimes lose motivation heading into final exams, and the answer as to why may lie within dopamine, University researchers found in a study. Psychology Prof. Joshua Berke, one of the ...

If you want to effortlessly become an expert in a new language, you’re probably too late. That’s an opportunity largely reserved for children. And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or ...

Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter known to modulate motivation and reinforcement learning. While the role of dopamine in these reward-related processes is well-established, the cellular and neural ...

Have you ever asked yourself, "Can I really motivate my learners, or can I only create the right conditions to inspire motivation?" Let’s explore what motivation is and how we can enhance it. When ...

A variety of sources provides us with a body of fairly reliable knowledge about adult learning. This knowledge might be divided into three basic divisions: things we know about adult learners and ...