Theories of Motivation and Empowerment in Open, Distance, and Digital Education : Empowering Attributes, Contexts, and Experiences
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Ng, Chi-hung. (2023). Theories of Motivation and Empowerment in Open, Distance, and Digital Education : Empowering Attributes, Contexts, and Experiences. In Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education pp. 165-181 Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2080-6_10
Authors | Ng, Chi-hung |
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Abstract | Motivation instigates and guides learning in open, distance, and digital education (ODDE). It is indispensable to distance learners’ engagement, persistence, and achievement. A lack of motivation is associated with perennial issues such as early dropout and poor performance in ODDE. This chapter provides an introduction to key theoretical perspectives on motivation, including sociocognitive theories, sociocultural theories, and the concept of perezhivanie. Each perspective provides a unique way for understanding and researching motivation in open and distance learning (ODL). Motivation is discussed as personal attributes internal to the distance learner from a sociocognitive perspective. Drawing attention to social processes and contextual influences, sociocultural theories situate motivation in relevant contexts and highlight motivation as a social, interactive, mediated, and evolving construct. The concept of perezhivanie gives prominence to distance learners’ learning experiences and subjective meanings they derived from personally significant experiences in ODL. This perspective pinpoints motivation that is experiential, reflective, and affect-laden. To advance the goal of empowering distance learners to engage and persist in ODL, these theoretical perspectives are important as they underscore empowerment derived from enabling personal attributes (sociocognitive theories), motivating contexts (sociocultural theories), and personally significant experiences (perezhivanie). |
Keywords | Motivation; Engagement; Learning; Distance learner; Sociocognitive theory; Sociocultural theory; Perezhivanie; Vygotsky |
Page range | 165-181 |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Book title | Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Place of publication | Singapore |
ISBN | 9789811920806 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2080-6_10 |
Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-19-2080-6_10 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 01 Jan 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 31 Jan 2024 |
Deposited | 07 Feb 2024 |
Additional information | © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023. This book is an open access publication. |
This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
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