using the arcs model
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PPT presented at the WiAOC2007 about the use of a motivational model to enhance the motivation of arab online learnersTRANSCRIPT
Mona YounesE-Training Consultant at
IslamOnline.netMay, 2007
Using ARCS Model to motivate Adult Arab Learners in an online setting
Case study
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
The Educational Scene
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
1. How many of you have visited an Arab country before?
2. How many of you have any teaching experience with Arab Learners?
3. How many internet users do you think are there in the Arab world?
4. What is the percentage of Arabic speaking population?
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
• The Arab World consists of 23 countries with a combined population of some 325 million people, 26.3 million of them (8%) are regular internet users . This figure is poised to double to 50 million by 2009, according to Eric Schmidt, Google Chief.
• Arabic speakers worldwide represent 5% of the world's population but only 2% of its Internet users.
• Internet usage rates increased to 8.50%, compared to 5.36% in 2004.
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
• No data could be found related to internet usage within the educational sector in the Arab region.
• IN the year 2001:
Total of
100.000 PCs installed in
Arab educational institutions
16 million in the USA
2 million in Japan1 million in
Germany
The E-Learning Market…
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
The E-learning market in the Gulf region: IN 2004 $ 72 million
raising at 27 % compound average rate
by the end of 2009 $ 240 million
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
Obstacles:
What do you think are the obstacles towards the active and constructive engagement of learners in online learning?
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
One of the major obstacles was motivation… to motivate the learners in a non-formal online setting to engage
interactively and constructively.…
What is motivation?
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
Motivation
Motivation deals with the question "Why do people do what they do.“
Learners' motivation describes the learners' willingness, need, desire and compulsion to participate in, and be successful in, the learning
process"
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
Why is Motivation in an online setting especially important ?
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
Contrary to conventional education, in distance education, motivation problems go undetected and
the student is mostly left without any outside help .
Motivation of students and finding incentives to participate actively, was seen by Mason( 2001) as one of the most central keys to online teaching.
Kelvin Kruse (n.d.) saw a direct correlation between success in any e-learning initiative and motivation
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
Keller invented in 1983 a simple, yet powerful four-factor theory explaining motivation called the ARCS
Model:
A - Attention strategies for arousing and sustaining curiosity and interest;
R - Relevance strategies that link to learners' needs, interests, and motives;
C - Confidence strategies that help students develop a positive expectation for successful achievement ;
S - Satisfaction strategies that provide extrinsic and intrinsic reinforcement for effort.
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
Case Study
A Bilingual Portal with a special focus on social
issues
In 2005: (acc. To Alexa)
#1 : Spiritual & Religious Site
#1 :Islamic Website
A need to serve a very
diverse audience
Counseling pages:Arabic and English
A better understanding of differences stemming from the religious, cultural, and intellectual
heritage of the audience.
First hand information about
audience needs
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
Five Year Experience:
The audience needed more than a good listening ear, and advising
mouth; they needed a real helping hand providing them with
skills and knowledge.
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
LMS MOODLE
Specification Life Skills
Instructors SMEs
Mode 100% online
Type Interactive
Ed. Theory Social Constructivism
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
The Survey
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
Post Course Interview:Parental Course ( total enrolled 87, final no. 40)
80% rated the course as excellent/v. good.Survey Sample: 5 males and 2 females .
When did you feel most motivated during the course? Why do you think you felt this way?
What effected your motivation ( positively and negatively)?
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
80% : Rapid and timely feedback and frequent
communication on the board
42% : Provocative postings
42% : Having a highly active group of learners (made 'interaction' like an inevitable virus)
ATTENTION
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
70%: Content was very much related to authentic situations, dealing with practical and every day issues
and dilemmas .
42%: Skill-oriented content and instruction.
42%: Opening Open Forums for socialization
Relevance
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
57%: Supportive and very encouraging tone.42%: Personal Introductions (even if anonymous)
42%: Friendly and safe environment (anonymity allowed) 28%: Heterogeneous groups, culturally diverse, with a
14% :Credibility and expertise of trainers14%: Catering for cultural understanding
Confidence
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
100%: Frequent, timely, positive, supportive and encouraging communication. (Family-like
environment(58%: Warm welcoming messages on the personal
introduction forum.71%: Meeting others with same problems and issues
71%: Chances for socialization and further networking.14%: Reminding emails, which avoided their usual
attitude of ‘lurking
Satisfaction
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
A Best Practice List can be found on the forum
Future Plans
To survey what worked and what didn’t in an online
Collaborative project
)A course about Multi- Intelligence for Teachers (
Using ARCS Model to motivate Online Adult Arab Learners
Mona Younes
http://www.monay.net
Skype: monayegy1964