Motivating students towards online learning in high school

Abstract

Abstract. Throughout the pandemic of 2020 students of all ages have experienced some kind of online learning. Many universities have moved to become fully online, while primary and secondary schools were forced to teach via video to students at home for several weeks. And even before the pandemic, there were plenty of online courses that happened solely through distance learning, so understanding how to motivate students in online courses has been vital, and now becomes so for physical schools forced to adapt to new ways of teaching. Due to the Covid health crisis, educators and students have been left with their feelings of uncertainty and the online courses in this context were implemented on a short notice. In such a climate of unpredictability surrounding online teaching, naturally many questions emerged as to its effectiveness, its impact on the teachers and students. This article illuminates the motivation of the students toward their online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic era. Due to sudden transformation from traditional face-to-face learning approach to remotely digital learning, some present studies revealed that students’ motivation in online learning was affected both intrinsically and extrinsically.