{"id":246,"date":"2014-05-01T18:34:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-05-01T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T18:34:50","slug":"improving-student-motivation-using-technology-within-the-stem-disciplines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/improving-student-motivation-using-technology-within-the-stem-disciplines\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Student Motivation Using Technology Within The STEM Disciplines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting MSc Projects I&#8217;ve supervised recently involved me working with Richard Wilkinson, looking at the ways in which technology can be used to motivate learners.<\/p>\n<p>We took some of the highlights from his research study at Coventry University College and made this into a paper for the HEA STEM Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the slides I used for the talk (they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ThomasLancaster\">also available on my SlideShare account<\/a>).<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/34121753?rel=0\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The session was well-received and led to plenty of discussion about the role that technology plays in education and why students did not seem particularly keen to engage with student media as part of this process. Definitely an area worthy of further exploration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting MSc Projects I&#8217;ve supervised recently involved me working with Richard Wilkinson, looking at the ways in which technology can be used to motivate learners. We took some of the highlights from his research study at Coventry University College and made this into a paper for the HEA STEM Conference. Here&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/improving-student-motivation-using-technology-within-the-stem-disciplines\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Improving Student Motivation Using Technology Within The STEM Disciplines<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[153,79,80,151,152,150],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-coventry-university-college","tag-hea","tag-higher-education-academy","tag-motivation","tag-richard-wilkinson","tag-stem"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Thomas Lancaster","author_link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/author\/thomas-lancaster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"One of the most interesting MSc Projects I&#8217;ve supervised recently involved me working with Richard Wilkinson, looking at the ways in which technology can be used to motivate learners. 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