The first term of Summer 2023 brings me to the course EP614: The Psychology of Motivation and Emotion in Learning. I believe how we feel about a topic has a lot to do with how well we learn about it. We’ll see if this theory holds true.
Official Course Description
This course focuses on different theories of motivation and the impact of social-emotional factors on motivation and learning. Theories addressed will include: sociocultural, self-efficacy, and attribution theory.
Institutional Learning Competencies and Outcomes
Institutional Learning Outcome Addressed
Scholarship
Graduates will be able to integrate scientific research and theory, as broadly defined, to enhance their scholarly and professional endeavors.
- Theory: Formulate theory-based and research-driven strategies for incorporating current technology with what is known about the psychology of learning, teaching, and instructional design.
- T1: Analyze the potential for technology to enhance learning environments using theories of educational psychology.
- T3: Examine how innovative technologies can be utilized to support learning and teaching. (signature assignment)
By the end of this course, students will be able to…
- CLO 6: Evaluate theories of learning, motivation, and emotion as they relate to the needs and goals of learners in an educational or professional setting.
- CLO 7: Identify potential uses of technology to support teaching and learning based on student motivational factors.
- MLO 2: Create an assessment and intervention plan.
- MLO 4: Discuss personal goal setting and the use of technology in tracking and achieving goals.
- MLO 11: Provide feedback through the Critical Friends framework in order to further enhance professional skills.
- MLO 12: Review how gamification software can increase motivation.
- MLO 13: Examine self-traits and habits based on theoretical views of motivation.
- MLO 14: Assess the impact of technology on an assessment and intervention plan to enrich learning motivation
Diversity
Graduates will respect the value and dignity of individuals and groups across all cultural contexts, and advocate for inclusion and equity. They will demonstrate intercultural competence in domestic and international contexts with people who have ideas, beliefs, worldviews, experiences, and behaviors that are different from their own.
- Social Justice: Analyze issues of human rights and equality and how access to education, wealth, opportunities, and privileges differ within a society.
- SJ1: Demonstrate awareness and implications of biases, prejudices, and assumptions.
- SJ3: Explain how social justice issues are manifested in educational and organizational contexts.
By the end of this course, students will be able to…
- CLO 4: Assess the motivation behind social justice initiatives in education.
- CLO 5: Explain how technology can influence motivation in social justice initiatives.
- MLO 8: Evaluate the motivational factors behind a social justice movement.
- MLO 9: Investigate how technology can be utilized to enhance motivation and participation in a specific social justice movement.
- MLO 10: Explain how technology can be used to motivate and influence learning in diverse populations
Professional Practice
Graduates will be able to demonstrate attainment in the areas of competency (as reflected in knowledge, skills and attitudes) required by their area of education and training. Examples include evaluation, intervention, consultation, teaching, and supervision.
- Assessment/Program Evaluation: Apply psychological theory and technology to facilitate a variety of effective teaching and learning assessment and evaluation strategies.
- APE1: Plan, design and assess effective learning environments and experiences based on psychological theory. (signature assignment)
By the end of this course, students will be able to…
- CLO 1: Develop a comprehensive assessment and intervention plan that addresses a pressing situation in a selected professional setting related to motivational and emotional issues and the learning and performance of an individual or group of people.
- MLO 1: Examine the impact of gamification software strategies on the self- efficacy of self as a learner.
- MLO 2: Create an assessment and intervention plan
- Consultation and Education: Act as a proactive agent of change to provide guidance at various levels of an organization to integrate the psychology of teaching and learning with technology.
- C&E1: Plan and design learning environments and experiences by modeling effective learning environments supported by technology. (signature assignment)
By the end of this course, students will be able to…
- CLO 2: Design effective teaching strategies to support student learning utilizing appropriate and innovative technology.
- MLO 3: Explain how teaching strategies can be used to learn about motivation and emotion
- MLO 4: Discuss personal goal setting and the use of technology in tracking and achieving goals.
- Technology and Education: Effectively implement and instruct innovative application of multi-media technologies in learning environments.
- T&E1: Effectively implement multimedia technologies in various learning environments.
By the end of this course, students will be able to…
- CLO 3: Integrate technology in learning environments to increase motivation and emotional engagement in support of improving teaching, engagement, and performance.
- MLO 5: Present a literature review based on the impact of motivation and emotion on learning
- MLO 6: Research theories of motivation and their impacts on learning, emotion, and engagement.
- MLO 7: Diagram current research to support the need for technology use to enhance motivation in learning.
