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How can you motivate students to learn online in times of crisis.

August 12, 2020 by Lemos Kelly

April 12, 2020 / by Rashmi Kusurkar Self-Determination Theory acknowledged by Blog LEARN! as an important perspective in motivating students while online learning during a crisis. How can we support and motivate students to engage in online learning? Our research on self-determination theory offers some relevant insights which I summarize as  A – Autonomy, B...

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Covid-19 Project: “Meaning in the Coronavirus crisis”

April 16, 2020 by Shannon

SDT scholars in Finland are going to run a daily diary study on ’Meaning in the Coronavirus crisis’. It will measure – using one-item scales – the following constructs:* Daily meaningfulness* Daily autonomy* Daily competence* Daily relatedness* Daily beneficence* Positive affect* Negative affect* Fear* Vitality* Hope* Optimism* Pessimism* Meliorism For more information on this study...

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Large Covid SDT Project in Belgium

April 1, 2020 by Shannon

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown, SDT researchers have collected a large data sample on Belgian citizens’ motivation which has become a motivation barometer that reveals interesting findings.

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#SDT2019 Conference Website LIVE

June 27, 2018 by Shannon

Mark your calendars: May 21-24 2019 #SDT2019. This only happens every 3 years. And this time we’ll be meeting near Amsterdam on the North Sea coast of Holland www.sdt2019.org

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