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AIED
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Self-assessment of Motivation: Explicit and Implicit Indicators in L2 Vocabulary Learning
Self-assessment motivation questionnaires have been used in classrooms yet many researchers find only a weak correlation between answers to these questions and learning. In this pa...
Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Eskenazi
DB
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Open source software adoption: motivations of adopters and amotivations of non-adopters
Adoption of an information system could be reflected in two ways: through the adoption intentions of the non-adopters and the extent of adoption for the adopters. This study seeks...
Yan Li, Chuan-Hoo Tan, Heng Xu, Hock-Hai Teo
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Dynamic changes in motivation in collaborative citizen-science projects
Online citizen science projects engage volunteers in collecting, analyzing, and curating scientific data. Existing projects have demonstrated the value of using volunteers to coll...
Dana Rotman, Jenny Preece, Jen Hammock, Kezee Proc...
AIED
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Choosing Reading Passages for Vocabulary Learning by Topic to Increase Intrinsic Motivation
: Intrinsic motivation has been shown in previous research to lead to better learning. In order to increase intrinsic motivation, REAP, a tutoring system for ESL vocabulary was enh...
Michael Heilman, Alan Juffs, Maxine Eskenazi
INTERACT
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Motivational Needs-Driven Mobile Phone Design
This paper provides support for the use of motivational needs in identifying mobile phone uses and related features. Drawing on motivational human and usage space research, the fin...
Judy van Biljon, Paula Kotzé, Gary Marsden