motivation

Research at Stanford shows that working together boosts motivation

When people are treated as partners working together with others – even when physically apart – their motivation increases, according to new Stanford research. As the study noted, people undertake many activities in life on their own but with others in mind – a researcher writes a paper on a new medical treatment and knows [...]

Teachers under stress

Many young teachers who begin their training with high motivation and noble ideals are exhausted or almost burnt out within a few years on the job, new research has shown. The latest findings from a continuing study by researchers at Monash University revealed more than one in four new teachers suffered from "emotional exhaustion" shortly [...]

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Motivating People to Learn

1. What's the best way to motivate people to learn? Generally, we are motivated by two different reasons. We either do some things for what we call extrinsic reasons. Namely, you work for forty hours a week so you can get a paycheck at the end. And you don't really like the job much but [...]

By |2013-04-16T01:12:48+10:00April 15th, 2013|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: , , , |2 Comments
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