This paper reports on our ongoing research around learning analytics. We focus on how learning analytics can be used to increase student motivation and the use of badges as a way to aggregate learning activity being a representation of their goals and progress along the course. The context of this work is an open learning environment, based on wikis, blogs, twitter, an activity stream mash-up a...

Exploration is a key animal and human behavior. Kay C. Montgomery (1921-1956) has made an important contribution to behavioral neuroscience of exploration, as well as motivation and learning. His works have many important applications to current experimental models of stress, fear and memory, continuing to influence research in this field. This paper, dedicated to the 85th anniversary of Montgo...

High energy photon colliders based on laser backscattering are a very natural extension of a ee linear colliders and open new possibilities to study of the matter. This option has been included in the pre-conceptual designs of linear colliders and work on Technical Design Reports is in progress. The physics motivation for photon colliders is quite clear though more studies are needed. The proof...

in recent years, performance gap between private and public sector has affected researchers of public administration to pay attention to the concept of public service motivation. present research has been accomplished aiming at improving public service motivation among employees of public sector and is intended to identify effective factors on public service motivation. for this reason, 196 peo...

objective: the present study aimed at examining the effect of multidimensional motivation interventions based on martin's model on cognitive and behavioral components of motivation. methods: the research design was prospective with pretest, posttest, and follow-up, and 2 experimental groups. in this study, 90 students (45 participants in the experimental group and 45 in the control group) const...

Abstract. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all schools in Germany were locked down for several months 2020. How realized teaching during school lockdown greatly varied from school. N = 2,647 parents participated an online survey and rated following activities of teachers mathematics, language arts (German), English, science/biology lockdown: frequency sending task assignments, solutions requesting...

introduction: this study was conducted to evaluate the association of dimensions of an efficient teacher with entrepreneurial motivation from the viewpoint of students. methods: the study population of this research included 110 pharmacy students (above third semester) at kermanshah university of medical sciences, among whom 86 students were selected as the study sample through simple random sa...

Intrinsic motivation, that is, internal rewards that reinforce certain behaviors in organisms, is an integral part of human development. This idea can be translated to the field of developmental robotics as a way to implement autonomous learning. This paper introduces the Curiously Adaptive Growing Intelligent Neural Gas (CAGING) algorithm, a hybrid system that builds on previous implementation...

objectives: regarding the type of service receivers as well as the technicality of the services provided, these services often bear high complexity and difficulty which can eventually lead to job burnout and shortage of motivation in the staffin this study, the factors affecting job motivation from the viewpoints of staff and managers of semnan welfare organization have been identified and poss...