Motivation and post-secondary education

Career Guidance and Post-Secondary Vocational Education and Training

The Relationship between Post-Secondary Stress and Academic Motivation in the Children of Veterans of Mazandaran Province

Introduction: One of main challenges for people involved in war is post-traumatic stress disorder, associated with unpredictable or destructive and long-term consequences for the injured person, his family and the community.  Post-traumatic stress disorder has been recognized as a stressful topic in the veteranschr('39') family; thus, it can affect childrenchr('39')s academic motivation. Object...

A new model for post-secondary education, the Optimized University

I. Introductory caveats. This article is discussing the situation at North American universities in general, and not specifically those in BC. Some details may be slightly different in BC from the rest of the continent, as well as varying between different institutions of higher education in BC. However indications are that most of the general features are largely the same throughout North Amer...

Internet Based Distance Post-secondary Education in Slovenia

The presence and the expansion of Internet based distance education (online DE) are one of the characteristics of the information society by which we can estimate the level of its development. We have witnessed many changes in Slovenia in the last decade and therefore we were interested in acceptability (and readiness) of Slovene students for Internet based DE, especially because the Internet h...

Mobile game-based learning in secondary education: engagement, motivation and learning in a mobile city game

Using mobile games in education combines situated and active learning with fun in a potentially excellent manner. The effects of a mobile city game called Frequency 1550, which was developed by The Waag Society to help pupils in their first year of secondary education playfully acquire historical knowledge of medieval Amsterdam, were investigated in terms of pupil engagement in the game, histor...