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A video about Nick Vujicic, who has no arms or legs, posted by Daily Motivation to YouTube (on the Daily Motivation channel), Jan 2009.

RO showed this to her class in a lesson titled Reevaluation of motivation and setting goals, week 9, semester 4.

Strategies to encourage students towards intrinsic motivation. R.O. recommends "Wise Choice" checklist

Dan Pink makes a case. The mismatch between what we know about motivation and what management does.

Authored by the Committee on Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn and the National Research Council, published in 2003. This page offers free PDF download, as well as hardback copy for purchase.

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Dan Pink makes a case for intrinsic motivation and explains the mismatch between knowledge and management around motivation.

Part of the University of Georgia's College of Education Initiative on Innovation in Teaching and Technology (ITT), this page links to presentations in the Innovation 20/20 series. Each topic is a 20 minute presentation on a specific innovation, followed by a 20 minute discussion period. Topics range from more reflective teaching (e.g. Using Metaphor to Explore Teaching and Learning) to using specific tools or strategies (Designing and Implementing an Undergraduate Blogging Community in EDIT 2000 or Motivating Students with Google Tools and More). Navigation on this page also points users to Innovation Resources, Innovation News, and the Discovery Series (another set of online videos).

A strategy presented by On Course workshop. On Course offers a variety of recommended techniques, carefully organized (e.g. "Student Success Strategies." On Course also offers a monthly newsletter.

By Ken Bain, Harvard University Press, 2004. According to its description, this book is based on a 15-year study and concludes that "it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand." The best teachers know their subjects well, but also know how to motivate and challenge their students. They believe "that teaching matters, and that students can learn."

RA discussed this in the notes for her lesson, week 3, semester 3.

Various authors. West Berlin, N.J., Township press Inc. 2008.