This presentation reports results of a mixed-method research study of working adults and college students who participated in self-directed e-learning courses on what influenced their motivation in their self-directed e-learning. The learner motivation is investigated in terms of what influences the learner motivation and whether the learner’s motivational level changes during the instruction. ...

Coaches of different profiles influence athletes’ sports motivation differently. The aim of this paper was to investigate the coaches’ contribution to the motivational structure of athletes from team sports. Using the coaches’ self-evaluations of goal orientation and intrinsic motivation and the athletes’ evaluations of their coaches’ leadership styles, the two types of coaches were identified....

Understanding the effects of motivation on instrumental action selection, and specifically on its two main forms, goal-directed and habitual control, is fundamental to the study of decision making. Motivational states have been shown to 'direct' goal-directed behavior rather straightforwardly towards more valuable outcomes. However, how motivational states can influence outcome-insensitive habi...

The prospect of reward may provide a motivational incentive for optimizing goal-directed behavior. Animal work demonstrates that reward-processing networks and oculomotor-control networks in the brain are connected through the dorsal striatum, and that reward anticipation can improve oculomotor control via this nexus. Due perhaps to deterioration in dopaminergic striatal circuitry, goal-directe...

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Let $(\mathbb{D}^2,\mathcal{F},\{0\})$ be a singular holomorphic foliation on the unit bidisc $\mathbb{D}^2$ defined by linear vector field \[ z \,\frac{\partial}{\partial z}+ \lambda \,w w}, \] where $\lambda\in\mathbb{C}^*$. Such has non-degenerate linearized singularity at $0$. $T$ harmonic current directed $\mathcal{F}$ which does not give mass to any of two separatrices $(z=0)$ and $(w=0)$...

The ARCS Model of Motivational Design has been used myriad times to design motivational instructions that focus on attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction in order to motivate students. The Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (IMMS) is a 36-item situational measure of people’s reactions to instructional materials in the light of the ARCS model. Although the IMMS has been used of...