Learning Sciences

A webpage explaining a general overview of theories related to learning and motivation. You can scroll down to see the animation explaining the balance between skills and challenges. 

I liked this article because the figüre illustrating Maslow's hierarchy of needs was illustrative. The article differentiates btw mastery and performance goals. It emphasizes self efficacy and Weiner's Attribution theory and finally has a different figure for flow.

It's every teacher's dream to have students who engage deeply with their lessons, want to learn for learning's sake, and perform at the top of their potential. In other words, teachers want their kids to find "flow," that feeling of complete immersion in an activity, where we're so engaged that our worries, sense of time, and self-consciousness seem to disappear.

I liked this article because it adds more flow elements like making kids laugh, positive realationships, and relevancy of the task and choice

2300 years ago, Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness..." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990) In the last 30 years, as a form of entertainment, video games have evolved from confined arcade activities into a mature media.Video games have deeply infiltrated our daily life and our society. As if toys expanded every child's imagination, modern videogames take advantage of a player's active involvement to open more possibilities than any other existing mediums. [Wright 2006] More and more people grow up playing video games, treating them not only as an art form but also as serious media.

Good application of flow theory to games

This video is about extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. I can advise you to watch it, because it makes what he says clear with drawings. Also he is talking about a research which has surprising results.

Autonomy and performing purposeful, sophisticated jobs is more important to people than earning a lot of money. Good research results.

What happens when somebody is encouraged by positive reinforcement and discouraged by negative one?

So behaviorism theory still works?

I found a video of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explaining flow theory.

The article demonstrates that a moderate level of extrinsic motivation is better than a high or low level, while the intrinsic motivation should be as high as possible in order to learn better.

This is the article Evrim Hoca gave us two weeks ago. I thought you may need it.

When I was reading Blumenfeld and Rogat's article, the part about authenticity, I encountered the term "BGuILE" and checked it out. If you are interested in, it is a tool and it is not active now, last update is 2002. It says BGuILE, learning environments bring scientific inquiry into middle school science and high school biology classrooms. The environments consist of computer-based scenarios and associated classroom activities in which students conduct authentic scientific investigations.

Which one is more important in success do you think: perseverance and passion or intelligence?

Video of Csikszentmihalyi on Flow, the secret of hapiness

What is Learning Analytics?

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- (EDUCAUSE) -- Today's young adults are often criticized for turning to social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram for real-time feedback, but new research from McGraw-Hill Education suggests that this behavior could be a significant asset when it comes to studying with the help of technology.

Lots of things happened since the last time I guest posted about learning analytics on Edudemic. One of the most popular questions I received was, "Exactly how will it all work?" So we dug deep this time, and we found lots great research on the subject.

I found this paper when I was "googling". It covers legal, ethical and related management issues surrounding the generation, use and sharing of analytics data in the context of teaching, learning and research and the underlying business processes based on current UK law. It may be beneficial for the question marks on that whether the learning analytics has been violating the ethical issues.

this was a good post that involves answers to the questions about analytics such as What are analytics? Why are analytics important? What are the benefits of analysing your data? How do students feel about it? How can I use it in my institution? and What does the future hold for analytics?

The efforts to boost the nascent field of learning analytics could bring about a sea change in education, making it possible to personalize - on a massive scale - students' learning by their individual interests and needs, according to a comprehensive report, involving experts from academia, business, nonprofits, foundations and government .

This Ted Talk is about open learning analytics in which the speaker talks about open lesson you can enter freely.

An introductory text with plain language as to learning analytics.

This short video explains briefly what & why learning analytics.

I liked the contribution of LA to "personalization of learning" idea in this video.

The sentence "if the missing objectives are observable, then they can be healed" is also important to understand the necessity of learning analytics.