The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the higher education landscape for faculty and students alike. Universities across the globe were forced to close their doors and abruptly shift from ...

In my lab, we are currently working on three projects. One project is examining ways to try to encourage more students, particularly those from underrepresented minority and gender groups, get ...

For decades, educators have wondered how to best recapture students’ traveling eyes or prevent their heads from slumping onto their desks. Student engagement is a perennial challenge in the classroom, ...

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 ...

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 lack of academic motivation is impacting high school students in a big way. To find out why, I asked my own students what drives them.

Motivation theory has evolved over time as limitations of each new theory have become salient, and new theories are proposed to improve upon the old ones. Since each theory makes sense on its own, it ...

Editor’s Note: This article is a revised version of an article that appears in a 2012 issue of The Social Media Monthly. If you like it, you might want to download The Social Media Monthly iPad app or ...

"Where's your name from?" I wasn't expecting to be the subject of my interview with John Schumann, but the linguistics professor had picked up on my Persian surname. Talking to me from California, ...

Mr Francis Taiwo Solanke, an educator at Ansar-ud-Deen Primary School, Ogun State, was recently honoured by the Federal Government after emerging as the Overall Best Performing Teacher Nationwide for ...