To succeed in the 21st century, people must re-imagine how they obtain and use education. Here's some expert advice on how to ...

Basic principles of motivation exist that are applicable to learning in any education situation. 1. The environment can be used to focus the student’s attention on what needs to be learned. Teachers ...

A research team at the University of Cologne examined how optional support influences students' learning success and ...

The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Jan., 2004), pp. 253-266 (14 pages) In this study we examined students' motivation in an elementary physical education running program using achievement ...

This post is by Kim Carter, the Executive Director of the Q.E.D. Foundation, an organization of adults and youth working together to create and sustain student-centered learning communities, and a ...

This article extends and develops earlier survey studies by reporting findings from detailed interviews with adolescents in Sunderland, Kentucky and St Petersburg. The interviews sought to examine a ...

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." —Dwight D. Eisenhower In an era where remote work and education are becoming the norm, ...

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 ...

Education writing is famous for its alphabet soup of acronyms and obscure terms, but it could just as well be faulted for trafficking buzzwords in search of clear definitions. Ideas like grit, ...