This study adopts the Keller’s ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfaction) motivational design framework to develop instructional strategies to integrate educational game learning into formal classroom settings. The experimental instruction lasts 8 weeks and there are 103 students in 6 grader involved. From the result of students’ opinions, motivational instruction strategies deve...

The purpose of this study was to test a motivational model on the links between situational and dispositional motivation and self-reported indiscipline/discipline based on the achievement goals theory. The model postulates that a task-involving motivational climate facilitates self-reported discipline, either directly or mediated by task orientation. In contrast, an ego-involving motivational c...

OBJECTIVE Degenerative ataxias in children present a rare condition where effective treatments are lacking. Intensive coordinative training based on physiotherapeutic exercises improves degenerative ataxia in adults, but such exercises have drawbacks for children, often including a lack of motivation for high-frequent physiotherapy. Recently developed whole-body controlled video game technology...

Remote Patient Management Systems (RPM) besides monitoring the health conditions of patients provide them with different information services that currently are predefined and follow one-size-fits-all paradigm to a large extend. In this work we focus on the problem of knowledge discovery and patient modeling by mining educational data, motivational and instructional feedback provided to patient...

This study explored the effects of integration tabletop games in natural science and environmental education courses on students’ learning motivation effectiveness. Four were designed integrated educational programs, 100 fifth-grade students at an elementary school Taiwan participated study. Participants divided into experimental control groups. The former received instructional program with ga...

Many would agree that learning on the Web – a highly autonomous learning environment – may be difficult for individuals who lack motivation and self-regulated learning skills. Using a social cognitive view of academic motivation and self-regulation, the objective of the present study was to investigate the relations between students’ motivational beliefs, their perceptions of the learning envir...