What happens when instructors focus on the environment they create for students in their classroom?
In this time-out, I’ll focus the discussion on a classroom’s motivational climate, which is largely facilitated by how the instructor cultivates the environment to the degree that students feel some control, cared for, and the course experience is designed in such a way to address and enhance students sense of interest, success, and utility.
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Jones et al (2024): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191491X24000324?via%3Dihub
Jones & Carter (2019): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11218-019-09500-x
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