Ann Jones and Kim Issroff (2007)
Learning technologies: Affective and social issues
In Conole & Oliver (2007)
Affect can cover emotion, mood, attitude & value
Cook (2000) argued that collaboration was motivating. Argument for this coheres around the idea that participants develop shared histories and shared meanings.
What are the elements that motivate?
· P191 Keller & Suzuki (1988, book) Keller’s ARCS – attention, relevance, confidence, satisfaction.
· Issroff & del Sddata (1996) identified 4 motivational factors namely curiousity, challenge, confidence and control
· Eales et al (2002) distinguish between
1. authentic motivation – related to a focus on the development of robust, long term knowledge
2. inauthentic motivation – focused on assessment and the tactics of schooling
This led onto ideas about the importance of ownership for motivation.
Focus on Research contexts
Since the 1980s research on motivation is more likely to be carried out in real learning contexts rather than being lab based.
193 Jarvela, 2001,4. ‘motivation is no longer a separate variable or a distinct factor, which can be applied in explanations of an individuals’s readiness to act or learn – but it is reflective of the social and cultural environment’ (KRO partly true but…. I would rather say that using only a lab based approach is never going to be totally satisfactory)
Studies
Face to face
P195 face to face with children – the importance of affinity and attraction (Issroff and also Vass refs)
CMC
· Wegerith (1998) ‘individual success or failure on one online course depended on the extent to which students were able to cross a threshold from felling like outsiders to feeling like insiders’
· Tolmie & Boyle (2000) review the factors influencing the success of CMC environments in university teaching. P196 ‘Some of them are affective factors and others involve affective considerations’ Size of group ( if too large the participants cannot get to know each other sufficiently for trust to develop), knowledge of other participants, student experience, ownership of the task , need for/ the function of CMC.
· Preece (2000) ‘ argues for the importance of sociability in communications that depend on trust, collaboration and appropriate styles of communication. Preece has a particular concern with empathy and has analysed the nature of empathetic support across a number of online communities’
Reflection and evaluation
P201 From an evaluation perspective ‘ what are the desired outcomes from the use of technology?’
‘what aspects of learning situations influence students’ affections’ ( KRO possible research question ).
