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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

Waterford

1] In part, this is because online learning often involves some level of independence—and independent learning is also linked to motivated students.[12] And finally, gamification can have an engaging place in the classroom if intrinsic motivation is prioritized.[4] Five Key Ingredients for Improving Student Motivation.

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Dave Burgess Talks Student Engagement #MondayMotivation #tlap

The CoolCatTeacher

It is a high-energy, interactive, and entertaining experience that will leave your staff unbelievably inspired, motivated, and with the practical skills to dramatically increase student engagement. Explore Like a Pirate: Engage, Enrich, and Elevate Your Learners with Gamification and Game-inspired Course Design by Michael Matera.

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#05: 5 Ideas for Using Game-Based Learning in your Classroom Today

The CoolCatTeacher

As a gamification guru and moonshot thinker, Michael transforms the traditional classroom into a high-energy environment where active student engagement is paramount. BOOK GIVEAWAY: Explore Like a PIRATE: Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design to Engage, Enrich and Elevate Your Learners by Michael Matera AND.

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8 Cool Tools You May Have Missed at ISTE 2017

Graphite Blog

This UK-based developer offers a student engagement platform with formative assessment tools like quizzes, interactive presentations, polls, and video discussion similar to Edpuzzle. Silas uses gamification, avatar creation, and (soon) VR to help kids record videos of their own situations and get teachers involved in feedback.

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10 Must-Have Features of an Online Education Platform

Kitaboo on EdTech

Online interactivities include quizzes, audio files, videos, simulations, gamification etc. The tool must also allow students to make notes and share with their peers or teachers, bookmark pages, search for information, highlight texts, etc. Including interactive elements increases student engagement with the courseware.

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It’s Pedagogy Go With Location-Based Mobile Learning At The University Of South Australia

EdNews Daily

Wijers, Jonker and Drijvers (2010) highlight that the potential for engagement increases when gamification features such as rules, goals, points and activities are added. Gamification ties into LBMLGs potential to generate on-location social learning, which is an important dimension of any learning experience. Current Practice.

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8 Trends in Education Technology That Will Have A Major Impact

Kitaboo on EdTech

Creating interaction and engagement has become a priority for many schools and universities. This style of learning has seen a growth in recent years for its ability to keep students engaged in the classrooms. Gamification in Education. In 2017, 14.5% of students in the U.S. Data Management & Analytics.

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