Improve the Motivational Appeal of Online Instruction for Adult Learners:
What’s in it for Me? by Yonnie Chyung

The author describes the improvement of the online programs of the department of Instructional and Performance Technology (IPT) at Boise State University. She explains that the improvement was thanks to “theory-based and model-based intervention design procedures,” which was partly based on the ARCS model. She reports that “adult online learners were highly motivated to learn, and they achieved a significantly high level of learning outcomes.”

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http://coen.boisestate.edu/ychyung/researchpaper.htm

 

Applying the ARCS Model to Adult Motivation to Work

In this document, Keller describes issues pertaining to people’s motivation to work. Consistently with other models of human performance technology, he explains how to distinguish performance problems due to lack of motivations versus environmental conditions of deficits in knowledge and skills. He then explains how the ARCS model can serve as a frame of reference for analyzing adult performance problems in the workplace. Then, when the problems are due at least in part to motivation he explains how to design motivational strategies that are consistent with the specific problems.

Keller, J.M. (1999). Motivational systems. In H. Stolovitch, & E. Keeps (Eds), Handbook of Human Performance Technology, 2nd Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers.

 

 

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