Learning Theories, Motivation, and Distance Education

Learning Theories, Motivation, and Distance Education

Fulya Torun, Tülay Dargut Güler, Seda Özer Şanal
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7681-6.ch010
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Abstract

Education is a related structure that can never be defined or even exist as separate from human beings. Behavioral, cognitive, and constructivist paradigms each try to explain learning with different concepts and principles. Well, did these theories survive the distance education process? Let's say each theory survived in distance education. Then the following questions come up: What does motivation mean for these theories? How do these theories make the motivational structure sustainable in distance education? Aiming at a comprehensive discussion of these questions, the chapter offers many answers and brings many different questions to mind. This chapter will guide instructors and instructional designers to design efficient learning opportunities for learners.
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Background

This chapter has three focus areas. These are learning theories, motivation, and distance education. The position of motivation in the context of behaviorism, cognition and constructivism learning theories will be discussed and the applicability of this position in distance education will be exemplified and concretized. Therefore, it is thought that the study will contribute to the literature.

Key Terms in this Chapter

Motivational Design: It is the realization of instructional arrangements, taking into account the activities related to providing and maintaining motivation.

Learning: It is all the interactions between the individual and life.

Distance Education: Classroom and time rules disappear physically and learning processes are carried out in physically separate areas thanks to different technological structures.

Motivation: It is the willingness of the individual to start a work, continue the work and complete the work.

Learning Theory: An approach that explains human learning and other elements (teaching, learning, teacher, etc.) related to human learning.

Instructional Design: It is the realization of the most appropriate educational arrangements for the learning structure of the individual with the pre-acceptance of how learning takes place.

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