Share Paper: Increasing Motivation for Learning through Non-disposable Assignment: A Student Perspective

  1. Feng-Ru Sheu, Kent State University, United States
  2. Judy Grissett, Georgia Southwestern State University, United States
Tuesday, June 21 11:30 AM-12:30 PM Riverside Ballroom

Abstract: Assignments are common tools that instructors apply to help student learning. The limited timeframe in a semester and the scope of the course may lead to students feeling unmotivated to assignments, with the minimum use of time, effort, and energy. Such works were often discarded at the semester's end as disposable assignments. Renewable assignment, a teaching technique that is developed in accordance with open pedagogy, allows students to contribute something more significant and make the value of students' works beyond students learning. However, the existing literature discussed the implication of open pedagogy, and minimal research explored the potential impacts of ...