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Intrinsic motivation to learn

I think that the next step is to look at how you would operationalize something like that.

Intrinsic motivation is stimulated by tasks of optimal novelty and difficulty
What might some of those tasks be in a context of e-teaching of music?

-relevant to personal interests, and providing for personal choice and control.

How can you provide personal control?


Curiosity, flexible and insightful thinking, and creativity are major indicators of the learners' intrinsic motivation to learn, which is in large part a function of meeting basic needs to be competent and to exercise personal control.

If these are indicators: Curiosity, flexible and insightful thinking, and creativity, then how do you promote them?

Intrinsic motivation is facilitated on tasks that learners perceive as interesting and personally relevant and meaningful, appropriate in complexity and difficulty to the learners' abilities, and on which they believe they can succeed.

How would you go about selecting such tasks-are you doing that now?

Intrinsic motivation is also facilitated on tasks that are comparable to real-world situations and meet needs for choice and control.

Are your tasks similar to real world situations? Do they meet needs for choice and control?

Educators can encourage and support learners' natural curiosity and motivation to learn by attending to individual differences in learners' perceptions of optimal novelty and difficulty, relevance, and personal choice and control.


Do you attend to individual differences? how?