Education & Learning

  Student Motivation in Distance Learning Is student motivation in learning important?       Researchers, Huang and Wang (2022) concluded through their research that, " the effect of relatedness satisfaction on students’ academic achievement was completely mediated by the extent to which they emotionally and behaviourally engaged in online learning activities " (para. Conclusion 4). Furthermore, they state, " effectively motivating and engaging students in the online classroom is critical to the quality and effectiveness of online education (Chen & Jang,  2010 ; Ferrer et al.,  2020 , as cited by Huang and Wang, 2022, para. 2). Simply put, the more engaged students are throughout a course, the higher their success and academic achievement tends to be.      As an educator, keeping students engaged and motivated to learn is one of the biggest priorities and challenges. All students are motivated differently. In traditional face-...

  Online Learning      In 2020 the world shifted and morphed into new norms and expectations due to the pandemic. Masks, curb-side pick-up, grocery delivery, and quarantines became the new normal. Not only did the pandemic affect our day-to-day routines and procedures, but it also transformed the world of education-- forcing teachers and students to learn a whole new virtual world of education. As a 4th-grade teacher at the time, I transitioned from teaching using a whiteboard and encouraging class participation, card games, and endless side conversations about their baseball games, ballet recitals, and weekend plans to online teaching through videos, Google Slides, and digital curriculum. Now, "hundreds of conferences deal with some aspect of distance education, and almost every professional organization's publications and conferences have shown a huge increase in the number of presentations and articles related to distance education" (Simonson, 2008, p. ...