Proposed in the twentieth century, Maslow argued that human beings were driven to or deterred from learning new information because of inherent emotional needs. Placed into five, interdependent levels or categories, the needs were hierarched as: physiological, safety, social, self-esteem and self-actualization . Maslow, in a later iteration, added a sixth level, self-actualization.
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Technology Meets Affect: Scaffolding Students' Socio-Emotional Needs Through Virtual Learning
Kalpana Mukunda Iyengar (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA) and Howard L. Smith (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6322-8.ch016
Abstract
This chapter describes a variety of multimedia incorporated into a course to respond to students' emotional and psychological needs. The course was designed for online, hybrid, as well as traditional face-to-face formats. The multimedia incorporated into the course were tools readily available for collegiate use (e.g., email, Google Drive, Wikispace). This research, based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, asserts that many of the experiences and technological devices integrated into twenty-first century instruction, respond to critical emotional elements of learning. While technological advancements provide convenience, the authors argue that the learner's affective needs are equally supported. Instructors, irrespective of their level of technological proficiency or their access to digital devices, may use these insights to incorporate technology for instruction in more thoughtful ways.